Bug 698802

Summary:	the backup tool do not explain what kind of backup it does (full, incremental, diff...)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4	Reporter:	Jean-Daniel Dodin <jdd>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Lukas Ocilka <locilka>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P4 - Low
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	Factory
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Jean-Daniel Dodin 2011-06-08 15:38:04 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

the backup tool do not explain what kind of backup it does (full, incremental, diff...).

When doing manual backup, one may think it's full, but for automatic backup? What are the max files kept option? are there all full backups?

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2011-06-24 09:39:30 UTC

I'll try to add some more info to help or redesign the UI a bit
although YaST Backup is already in maintenance mode and we don't
have enough time to be invested there.

Comment 2 Jean-Daniel Dodin 2011-06-24 09:52:59 UTC

thanks. I think YaST backup is under evaluated. some years ago it was pretty basic, but at some moment it was made better. Using it for some time now, seems to make differential backups (each day the difference from the last complete backup is done and only the last copies kepts).

It does a pretty good job

Comment 3 Lukas Ocilka 2011-06-24 11:16:28 UTC

Fri Jun 24 13:13:06 CEST 2011 - locilka@suse.cz

- Enhanced dialog and help for automatic backup - emphasized the
  fact that all backups are full backups (BNC #698802).
- yast2-backup-2.21.0