BackupEdge: RFE

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Jay Ashworth propounded (on Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:49:45PM -0500):
| For me, a common use case is "I'm going to restore, in Expert mode, one
| directory worth of files, to the current directory I was in when I started
| edgemenu."
| 
| Two minor changes would make that much more efficient:
| 
| 1) When I go into Expert Restore, the default "Restore To" location
| should be `pwd`, rather than /, as it appears to be now (at least it was
| on 2.3.0, which is what they're running).

I always do such a thing from a shell prompt using edge.restore.  

If I specify a file or directory (no path included), the command will
restore that file or directory to my cwd.

This works in 2.3.


| 2) When the restore process is skipping over files, it should provide,
| in the popup dialog, some indication that it's *skipping over files*, as
| opposed to *completing the restore of the most recent matching file*, so
| that you know when to manually cancel it.  If the last file is really big
| (gigabytes), then it can be impossible to practically tell when to cancel
| so as not to have to read the entire tape.  A spinner that moved on each 
| new file encountered would fix that problem, and probably not be that hard 
| to implement, I would suspect.
| 
| Anyone else have an opinion on these two items?

With edge.restore, I don't sense that the entire tape is being read.

| What's the RFE process for Microlite?  (Post here, and hope Tom sees it? :-)

Write to Tom?

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JP