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[Anton <feenstra@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,


May I add something, that I stumbled on the other day. I do some of my 
backups on an external disk at home. But I might at some point want to 
review (and tweak) my settings while away from that disk (say, in a 
spare 10 minutes in the train or so). Currently this is not possible, 
since SBackup will complain about the missing backup destination, and 
re-insert the default. Worse, if I didn't read the message carefully 
enough (or not at all), and Save the configuration, I've messed up my 
settings.

I think the message should give the user the option to keep the current 
(correct) setting, or to change it (choose a new location), or set it to 
default.

P.S., the same goes for my other backup setting, where the destination 
is a server at the university that I can only reach from inside 
(firewall protection).

This opens the problem that Jean-Peer raised, to make sure the backup 
location is always a valid one when it is saved. Would it be good enough 
to display a warning for a saving a destination location that cannot be 
(currently) validated?

Alternatively, this may be a separate configuration option, something 
like "allow un-tested destination location to be saved?".


Groetjes,

Anton.

-- 
problem occurs if nssbackup is run with the destination drive not present. It looses the config info.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/622496
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