Hello.
I’m a deja-dup user for a long time, I would like to contribute something. I always thought that a panel that shows some numbers about backup sessions could be useful.
Text only; something like this:
I’m a computer programmer with previous open source contributions experience, but none to GNOME foundation.
What do you think about this feature?
Any ideas on how to start?
This is specifically about the backup progress window? It is true that we are a little sparse with the info there.
Is the timing info a way to let the user guesstimate how long the rest of the backup would take? Maybe it would be more helpful to try to estimate that for them. (The time elapsed bit might not be very helpful to your purpose — if that was the purpose — because resumed backups might start at 80% complete but have only begun for a few minutes.)
Is the stat block there as a way to let you know if you accidentally backed up your 50gig folder by accident when you were expecting just 1gig of data?
Is the timing info a way to let the user guesstimate how long the rest of the backup would take?
Yes, exactly. Or maybe a bytes/sec, or a progress like 2GB of 14GB…
resumed backups might start at 80%
I’ve never did a backup in more than one session.
I always wondered the use case of resumed backup (what if you stopped and generate newer versions of already backed up files?); but is not the discussion in place.
You’re right; in that case elapsed time would not be very helpful.
Is the stat block there as a way to let you know if you accidentally backed up your 50gig folder by accident when you were expecting just 1gig of data?
Yes! Sometime huge files move around by itself
I think it could also be useful to know how much delta were you producing over time.
Something like this
Backup sessions history
+---------------------------------------+
| Date: 2020/12/26 12:34:51 |
| Duration: 35 min. 10 seg. |
+---------------------------------------+
| Stats |
| Total Files scanned: 146.000 |
| # New or modified files: 4.502 |
| Directories: 3.023 |
| Bytes backed up: 1,43 GB|
+---------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------+
| Date: 2020/12/19 10:41:47 |
| Duration: 32 min. 22 seg. |
+---------------------------------------+
| Stats |
| Total Files scanned: 146.000 |
| # New or modified files: 1.502 |
| Directories: 1.031 |
| Bytes backed up: 1,01 GB|
+---------------------------------------+
