Re: Python Gui interface

[Patrik Dufresne]

Hello Harry,

Thank you for contacting the rdiff-backup community. I'll be happy to help
you solve any technical problems you may have with Minarca or Rdiffweb. I
do my best to make the installation and configuration process as simple as
possible. If you can provide technical details about what goes wrong during
the installation process, I'll be better able to help you solve your
problems.

As a start, you may provide the steps and command line you ran with the
error message that gets raised.

Le lun. 27 mai 2024, à 13 h 12, EricZolf <ewl+rdiffbackup@lavar.de> a
écrit :

> Hi Harry,
>
> I'm happy to hear about your interest but before you invest too much time
> in a new tool,  you might want to liaise with Patrik, who's maintaining
> Minarca. He'll probably be happy to help solve your issue with Debian (he's
> active on this list) and avoid diluting an already small community.
>
> Regarding the query about a progress bar,  there is no such thing because
> rdiff-backup works extensively with iterators. And those iterators don't
> know in advance their length a they're based on file system information.
> This said,  as files are sorted in alphabetical order,  you could estimate
> a percentage based on their first letter or something like this.  With
> severity 5 and more, you get a list of all files as they are being handled.
>
> It never appeared to me that progress bars are more precise than what I
> just suggested 😜
>
> Hope this helps, whatever you decide,
> Eric
>
> On May 26, 2024 5:17:18 PM UTC, Harry A Jarrell <hajarrell@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >I am interested in developing a GUI interface for rdiff-backup. I have
> tried both of the web interfaces and neither one works on a debian based
> system. Rdiffweb gives a 500 on the next page after the  login and Minarca
> is not able to find the .deb to do the install. My one question is there an
> hook in rdiff-backup that is able to show the progress of the backup. I
> understand that rdiff-backup is not interactive and doesn't need this
> functionality, but if it is not available, is there anywhere in the program
> where that information could easily be exposed?
> >
> >My vision is to provide a first version quickly, that will do local
> backups and then expand the system to provide almost the complete
> functionality of rdiff-backup with a graphical interface.  I see the only
> limitation being an include and an exclude string, not the multiple ordered
> include and excludes that would be available currently.
> >
> >I have been using rdiff-backup for quite a few years and don't have any
> problem with using is in crontab or the command line, but I feel that such
> a useful piece of software needs to be more accessible to people who are
> not comfortable using the command line or crontab.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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