Anders Johansson said the following on 06/12/2011 08:50 AM:
Command line backup utilities are indeed plentiful. rsync, tar (I have had issues with star, it doesn't always back up everything, there are bugs in it), but I completely agree that we need a nice GUI for restoring, for selecting which files to restore. You read my email as a rant against GUIs, but that is not what I intended. I was just taking stock of what we had, not what we needed
Consider the command line: a type such as "... directory/ *" for "... directory/*" when backing up means you've backed up too much, perhaps run out of 'tape". But when restoring its disastrous! I've seen systems destroyed and critical work list due to that. I'm not saying GUI is fool-proof. I've seen badly designed GUIs - in essence they only let the user do what the designer thinks the user should be doing, not necessarily what the user wants or could do with a command line. I've seen GUIs that lead the user into error. I've seen GUIs that are prone to certain types of error or which fail to report errors (lots of the latter!) But in this instance a GUI that does point-and-click on what files you want restored is probably a good thing. It is more probably a good thing if you want only a few very specific files restored. Its an every greater GoodThing(tm) when you can't remember their names or they have oddball spelling or you want to look inside them first. But for backups, especially backups using CRON, the command line is a GoodThing(tm) -- Context is Everything -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org