BackupEdge: RFE

[Tom Podnar]

Posting BackupEDGE enhancement requests is really, really not best done here.
Using my personal email address (tom at microlite.com) is a great place to start.
I'd be happy to engage in an email discussion, gconvert what you are "asking for"
into what that means in BackupEDGE-speak, see if there is already an available solution,
and move forward with an existing solution, work-around, better training, or new
engineering.

Like many lists and blogs I have to monitor, things that don't relate specifically
to BackupEDGE get lower priority bandwidth. I enjoy reading things here, but realistically
only get to do so one or twice per week.

Regards,
Tom Podnar
Microlite Corporation

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 3:49:45 PM
Subject: BackupEdge: RFE

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).

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?

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

Cheers,
-- jra
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