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Make it easier to select single files for backups #670

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Make it easier to select single files for backups:
With Duplicati it is easy to backup folders, but very difficult to choose 
single files without using regular expressions to be included in backups. This 
is the main weak point of Duplicati in my opinion.

I suggest to provide a single-file-selection in an explorer-like window similar 
to the duplicati-folder-selection without using regular expressions as in 
Cobian Backup or in Uranium Backup.

I use the portable duplicati version 1.3.2.1354 on Vista 64 bit.
The backend destination is another harddisk.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ernst.m...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2012 at 10:08

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes, the regular expressions are hard to use, I agree.
René is working on the new UI, so I am assigning this to him.

Original comment by kenneth@hexad.dk on 1 Aug 2012 at 7:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thank You Kenneth for your quick picking up this greatest weak point of 
Duplicati for improvement in the new UI. I (em4020) am one of the main 
moderators on AlternativeTo.net: http://alternativeto.net/software/duplicati/.
On Aug.1th,2012 Duplicati has 27 Likes and 35,73 AlternativeTo-Rank-Points.
For Single-File-Backup I use Cobian backup or the portable Uranium today. With 
the new UI you can use Duplicati for all purposes. This will increase the 
popularity of Duplicati more and more. BTW, I have translated the 34 strings to 
German, which had no translation in the end of July, 2012.

Original comment by ernst.m...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2012 at 8:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes, we have a new dialog almost ready for adding files to Duplicati.
I am not sure if we will do it with picking individual files, but the filter 
setup will at least be much simpler.

I don't see the use case for picking individual files, except for something 
like "Backup my Outlook.pst file".

I saw the updated string, and I made a small script that pulls the strings from 
the spreadsheet whenever I build a new package so they should be in the latest 
build.

Original comment by kenneth@hexad.dk on 9 Aug 2012 at 9:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
In our company we have single very important files on the network, which are 
edited by many persons very often. So the danger to damage them ist great, and 
sometimes it is necessary to restore a backup from these files, which everyone 
should can make for himself. So it would be very important to be able to pick 
individual files with a portable backup software. Cobian backup and Uranium are 
able to to this, but Cobian cannot be used without admin rights, so until now I 
make it with Uranium portable free, but Uranium cannot backup open files (VSS) 
in the free version, and with Duplicati I cannot select single files.
The complete folders are backed up by the IT-department of our company but only 
every 2 days and only 2 versions back. Sometimes we need the version from a 
week ago or from 2 hours ago, so we have the demand to make individual backups 
from some single files,  which are very important. I suppose, this demand could 
exist in other companies tooo.  So it would be very fine, if the coming 
Duplicati-version would be able to selct single files as Cobian BU and Uranium 
can. Then Duplicati would be the greatest Backup-Software which has all 
important features in one app alltogether.

Original comment by ernst.m...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2012 at 1:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ability to pick single files was added in the latest development version. As UI 
screenshots are attached here, I keep this open as long as the new version does 
not have a UI yet.

Test build: http://www.duplicati.com/news/theduplicati20storageengineishere
How it works: 
https://duplicati.googlecode.com/files/Block-basedstorageformat.pdf

Original comment by rst...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2013 at 11:29