[gtaSAGE-members] backup client

[Duane Bedeau]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thamer Al-Harbash wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Duane Bedeau wrote:
>
> What I cannot understand, and maybe you can clarify this for me,
> is why anyone would want to run something graphical for a routine
> job? It's far better to write an automated script which sends you
> a descriptive email every night than to run a GUI frontend and
> manually perform a repetitive duty.

Well I suppose this is out of context but this isn't what you guys may
think!  This is for home personal use... I'd like to stick a tape in,
spike up the backup process (which is 99% of the time going to be a full
backup) and know when it's done so I can use my box again.  While yes I
can do this easily at night but's not the point really...

It's similar to someone asking for an X based calculator... Yes they can
run bc in an xterm OR they can use xcalc... If a nice GUI for backups
existed, I'd like to know about it but if not then... I'll just chug along
with tar at night... no biggie...

> Is marketing making you do this?

Naw, at work we use Netbackup WITH guis I might add :)

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Duane Bedeau
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