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Show Backup Sizes on Restore Wizard List of Backups #640

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
How are you using Duplicati now?

I use Duplicati to take full backups of the appdata folder for a program that 
indexes the content of (some of) my hard drives.  The reason is that sometimes 
a network drive would become unavailable and the program would rewrite its 
indexes with the now-very-incomplete data.  Duplicati makes a full backup every 
18 hours, keeping up to 24 of them or so, so in the event I need to, I can see 
when my index backup became MUCH smaller, and restore the larger one. 

How would you like it to work?

Just add a column to the wizard's restore "List of Backups" dialogue.  As the 
logs show the backup size, this shouldn't be an unreasonably difficult request. 

Are there special considerations to this request?

I don't think so.

Additional information:

Also:  It would be nice if Duplicati had an option to use timestamped folders 
for each full backup.  Many backup programs have this option.  As each backup 
is done in many small files, to see the size of a backup (outside of the logs) 
I have to select all backup files with very similar date in Windows Explorer 
and click Properties.

I am attaching a screenshot of the place in Wizard I would like to see sizes, 
just in case I have generated any confusion.  

THANKS.  I Love dup, by the way.  
Jeff jsgordon420@hotmail.com  (on here its gordonlaw330@gmail.com )

Original issue reported on code.google.com by GordonLa...@gmail.com on 6 Jun 2012 at 10:55

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Good point. We are currently working on the new UI for Duplicati 2.0 and we'll 
take this into consideration. I also think it is important to see this, if 
people want to free some space. In that case they would probably like to know 
how much space they can free when the delete a set of backups.

Regarding folders: This is a long story. There are good reasons to store data 
in sub-folders and there are good reasons NOT to store any data in sub-folders. 
We put your request on the pro-list. One day we will have a look at how 
Duplicati stores its backups to improve some things and then we'll take your 
request into consideration as well. Thanks.

Original comment by rst...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 6:10