Re: Python Gui interface

[EricZolf]

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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