Recent changes to feature-requests

Scheduled Task?

Pete Jalajas — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:23:57 -0000

Would it be nice or appropriate to run Boxi as a scheduled task?

Navigation issues, shortcuts

Pete Jalajas — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:19:11 -0000

Can only launch Backup and Compare on their respective tabs. Wish user could launch them from the other related tabs, from a menu, hot buttons below the menu bar, or a keyboard shortcut.

Navigating between the tabs is not bad, but less than optimal. The little tab arrows on the right are, well, little. I see if I can get the tab itself to be selected (dotted lines around tab name), I can use left and right, PageUp/PageDown/Home/End arrows to move between them, which is great. If I'm active in a field below the tab title, PageUp gets me to the tab titles, which is good, I think.

If I have boxi Maximized, I can see all the tabs and click them fairly easily (although I'm a keyboard guy), but some tabs are off the side if I'm in a normal sized window.

Navigated to Compare tab (tab name selected with dotted lines), but Alt-C combination did not launch Start Compare. Once I select something down in the panel, like All Locations, then Alt-C works to launch Start Compare.

Run as a Windows Service? Automatic backups?

Pete Jalajas — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:02:35 -0000

To be clear, boxi does not run as a windows service, does not install a bbackkupd service, must stay open to backup files throughout the day. That's ok, I think.

Does leaving boxi open continue to backup user files throughout the day? I set UpdateStoreInterval to 20 (seconds) and MinimumFileAge to 20 (seconds) and don't see any evidence that new files are being backed up automatically.

AutomaticBackup = yes in my .conf file on my hard drive, but I can't see it in boxi.

Not sure what AutomaticBackup means.

Looks like UpdateStoreInterval and AutomaticBackup do not apply or are broken in boxi?

Wish I could copy error messages

Pete Jalajas — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:56:27 -0000

Wish I could copy error messages by scraping the screen.

Maybe need a text-based log system?

Many other screens/panels would be nice to be able to scrape the info for pasting into emails, sourceforge etc. Maybe the logging system could catch most of them.

Wish the values could be entered in sec, min, hr

Pete Jalajas — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:47:51 -0000

Wish the values could be entered like 3600s, 60m, or 1h.

Finished wizard, wasn't sure what to do next

Pete Jalajas — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:44:11 -0000

Finished the wizard and didn't know what to do next.
Configuration? Advanced? Backup?

Add more Windows Explorer descriptive info for boxi.exe

Pete Jalajas — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:34:30 -0000

Add some descriptive info to Windows Explorer fields so that inexperienced users will know where this file comes from and what it
does.

Update restore path to include version information

Achim J. Latz — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:47:19 -0000

Situation: A file proposal.odt that you have worked on for days, and saved several versions under the same name that were all duly backed up by Boxi.You just realised that about 3 days ago, the document included some data that you deleted in subsequent versions of the document. Now you want to recuperate the older version to access that data.

Request; Upon restore It would be great to have the possibility to pick a version stored on the server based on the data. At the moment, the user needs to know when the backup was made. The proposal is to include a context menu or seprate list that shows all versions for a specific file, including date and time of the backup. The user can then pick an existing copy, rather than having to guess a reasonable time and date.

See the enclosed screenshot as an idea, based on Bacula Bat.http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=bat_new and BackupPC http://freelock.com/images/stories/news/backuppc2.png

Make text area/list "Errors" copiable

Achim J. Latz — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:22:24 -0000

Please make the text area/list "Errors" in "Restore Progress" tab and "Backup progress" selectable and copy-able, so that users can report their errors in an easier way via simple copy/paste and do not have to retype the message or search the log file.

Disable backup, restore & compare if configuration is not OK

Achim J. Latz — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:45:27 -0000

Rather then getting error messages such as:

wxWidgets Debug Alert
RestoreFilesPanel.cc(187): assert "pChildren" failed in
_AddChildrenSlow().

wouldn't it be better to disable backup, restore & compare if the configuration is not OK? Perhaps there is a way to "test" the configuration upon entering the date (simply log into the server), and then activate the backup, restore and compare panels?

In addition, if there is no data to be restored from the server (new account), simply show an empty tree control rather than the above assert?