Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: sbackup
I'm not sure if this is a valid wish or just my own stupidity, but I
guess it can happen to others.
When I first installed sbackup I made a manual backup on the default
configuration. Since sbackup only tells me the PID of the process, and
no graphical indication, when I realized I wanted to backup to another
drive I went to cancel the backup process. I opened gnome-system-monitor
and looked for the PID, so when I didn't see it (not realizing it was
running as root, so I couldn't see it) I assumed it had failed for some
reason.
I then configured sbackup to store its backups in another directory, and
let it run backups for a week. Out of curiosity, I checked and noticed
the backups were unusually large. So I checked with baobao in the
backup'd directories, and noticed sbackup was storing its own backup in
the tar file, effectively doubling its size.
Since I can't think of any situation where a user would want to backup
its own backups, I suggest to add a regex to exclude backup folders. I'm
not sure how useful it would be, but it may save another user some disk
space =)
(alternative suggestion: when changing the backup folder, detect if
there're any backups in the current folder and ask the user if he wishes
to move it to the new backup folder)
If there's any good reason not to do this, I'd like to hear it. Thanks!
** Affects: sbackup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Sbackup should exclude its own backups
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116743
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