[Box Backup-dev] Testing Boxi 0.1.1

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Pete,

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, E.W. Peter Jalajas wrote:

> OK, thanks, a couple of confusions on my part.  The red X at the parent 
> directory made me think that _nothing_ below it was going to be backed 
> up.  (The higher-level parents in Backup Files, Basic, that is, My 
> Computer, Local Disk C:, and Program Files, had green checks, so my 
> confusion is reasonably warranted, no?)

I'm not sure how I should make it clearer. Suggestions welcome. 
Directories that are explicitly included (as location roots) have a green 
tick, and their children have grey ticks. Directories that are are 
explicitly excluded have red crosses, and their children grey crosses.

> BUG?:  Continuing to hit Start Backup on the Backup panel showed the 
> same result, eventhough, I think, that file should not be being backed 
> up because it hasn't changed.  To rephrase, nowhere does it say how many 
> files (and bytes) were actually backed up during a "Start Backup" run.

Well, the user probably doesn't care so much about the actual number of 
bytes sent over the wire, rather the amount of their data that is "safe" 
on the remote server. I don't think Box makes it easy for us to get the 
number of bytes, but I can try.

> BUG?:  New related issue, though:  I set it up to backup a few more
> files, which appeared to backup correctly, but I couldn't see them
> under Restore Files until restarting Boxi.

Same thing? Close and reopen the parent node?

> By the way, the Backup Files, "Exclusions" tab uses the "Exclu*" words 
> about 5 times as a bit of a misnomer, because it includes "Includes". I 
> don't have a better name yet though, except "Exclusions/Inclusions" 
> ("Exceptions" would cause confusion with the error states, I would 
> think.).  Maybe "Modifications"?

Exceptions?

> (I'm sure that "bug" will go away when the old "5 redundant locations in 
> root directory found" are deleted in 172800 seconds.)

That won't happen, I'm afraid. One thing that Boxi doesn't do is delete 
old locations (yet).

Cheers, Chris.
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