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[Thomas SchneiderAG <question165337@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #165337 on sbackup:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/165337

Dear developpers of sbackup,

I wonder if you couldpossibly combine sbackup with duplicity ( http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ and also here on launchpad). It would be the killer app, i think. for users like me, duplicity is too hard, I need a gui that's simple and easy to understand, that explains things and that let me easily do things like logarithmic purging - that's what sbackup already does great. :)
Now with duplicity you'd get support for a, imho,  very important feature: encryption. also it uses well-tested Gpg and rdiff for space-saving incremental backups with some enhancements to simple tar.
Thus, with a splendid app not just in one aspect but many, for all kinds of users you could therefore attract even the ex-Windows users like me by its simplicity while at the same time making full use of the power of linux and having an all in one solution so the user does not need to make a patchwork on his own consisting of backup scripts, encryption set up apart, .... But of course, those who do not want encryption or want to set one up apart could simply disable built-in encryption.
And both, simplebackup and duplicity, both are in python .... To me, it sounds like the ideal combination! 

If not, is there / will there be another easy way to have backups be transparently encrypted when backing up and automatically decrypted when restoring?

Thank you very much for your great work!

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