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[Anton <question62529@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #62529 on NSsbackup changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+question/62529

    Status: Answered => Open

Anton is still having a problem:
Jean-Peer Lorenz wrote:
[...]
> I really don't think so. In my opinion sbackup contains many (partly
> blocker) bugs and does not create reliable backups. This was the reason
> for me to turn to NSsbackup.
[...]

OK, clear enough. Thanks for your elaborate explanations!

> What are you actually going to work on?

Well, the ideas I had stemmed from my experiences with sbackup. So, I'm 
currently re-evaluating them. One thing that springs to mind, is that 
you currently cannot set a maximum backup size when compressing. Since 
vanilla tar has an option for multi-volume backups, this should be 
fixable in nssbackup. It should be useful as well. Another feature might 
be something like auto-detect the max filesize, but I'm not sure if that 
is feasible.

Finally, but I think that is fixed already, is that sbackup wouldn't 
recognize a truncated backup. In other words, verification of the backup 
data after backup. There, perhaps, an auto-repair feature might be good, 
so nssbackup would try and continue where the problems started. That 
might also be good for interrupted backups, especially for remote ones.

> Would you help translating NSsbackup?

Possibly, I'm native dutch, I don't know if that's there already?

> Before implementing new features the is a lot of work to be done
related to documentation, website etc. Do you have some time/experience?

Little time, and little experience. But I'm happy to spend some time 
learning how to do things properly.


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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