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Better way for client to change settings after install #44

Open runt1me opened 1 year ago

runt1me commented 1 year ago

Currently, if a client wanted to make changes to the directories that they have backed up after the install has completed, they would need to modify the settings file by hand. This could be difficult for a non-technical user; we should provide an interface to do it.

Possible ways to get this done:

The latter approach does institute a new kind of paradigm where the server is telling the client what to do, so we would need to carefully consider the consequences of doing that and make sure we are doing it correctly.

Either approach requires a significant amount of re-architecting (first approach would require us to create a GUI for the client, currently there is none) so I don't think this is feasible for the MVP, but down the road it feels necessary.

Estimated story points: 10

EccentricKnight commented 10 months ago

@runt1me The command center seems like a natural place to incorporate this. We could probably build a file-explorer style interface that allows users to check/uncheck files and folders to be backed up. Unless you want to build a client-side application but that feels like a lot more work.