[Box Backup] Development feedback & discussion for Box Backup 1.0?

[Wouter van Eekelen]

I haven't finished my testing of box backup yet, but it isn't possible to
restore files/dirs at a given time?!
Like Thomas said, this seemed so obvious I didn't check for it either.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Thomas Capricelli
<orzel at freehackers.org>wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> On Friday 14 January 2011 01:52:00 Achim J. Latz wrote:
>
> > My (personal, short) list of features that BB still needs for prime time:
>
> While we are at it, here is my (personal, short) list
>
> * Snapshotting, which is, i think what those tickets are about:
>
> http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/ticket/62
>
> http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/ticket/52
>
> Other stuff is (very much) nice to have, like bandwidth throttling, 2GB
> limitation or GUI, but weight really small compared to this feature.
>
> While performing my big comparison study of backup solutions, I've been
> very impressed by boxbackup and it was my final choice.
>
> Only after this did i notice that i could not request "restore those
> files/dirs as they were at given date/time". This seems so obvious a
> requirement that i did not check for this feature. Now, I understand that
> with boxbackup design this was not that 'obvious'. I think that this feature
> is, by far, the most important one missing.
>
> Is it possible to create an account on trac ? I'd like to subscribe to
> tickets to be notified when something happens, but i can't find how to
> create a login.
>
> For whoever is interested in creating a GUI, please dont do java or
> wxwidgets and use a proper multiplatform widgets set such as gtk, or, even
> better, Qt.
>
> best regards,
>
> Thomas
>
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>
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>
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