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[Chris Wilson]

Hi Achim,

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Achim wrote:
> On 02/09/2009 21:05, Chris Wilson wrote:
>>  On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, scartomail wrote:
>> 
>> > >  Boxi is supposed to (eventually) give a clear and easy status view 
>> > >  to the user: red light means backup is failing, green light means 
>> > >  it's OK.
>
> This is great news: Will we also get a nice tray/dock status icon 
> (wxTaskBarIcon [1]) that shows the current health of the backup system?

Yes, exactly.

> Ideally, Boxi would really be the frontend to graphically select the 
> data to be backed up, to run restores and compares, and upon pressing 
> "Backup" Boxi send a "Sync" notification to the running bbackupd 
> process.
>
> Is this along what you have in mind?

More or less, yes. I like the ability to run a manual backup from Boxi 
itself, as we get better feedback in case there's a problem, but I'd like 
the ability to run a manual backup through Box Backup, as well as 
monitoring the progress of the automated backups run by Box Backup.

> PS: I was away for a couple of days due to the birth of my second 
> child/first son (-:

Congrats :)

Cheers, Chris.
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