Re: [PLUG] client-centered backup software that doesn't suck?

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:12 -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Gnome VFS has always seemed to me to be a toolbox abstraction layer
> for the programmer, not a feature layer that matters to the user.  But
> there's always been just enough hype that I've wondered if I'm missing
> something, even when I go look at the project data on sourceforge and
> the gnome-vfs home page.  Is there something cool about it besides
> that the programmers who wrote sbackup got a nice clean interface to
> their filesystem?

well it's nice for the programmer for reasons you mention, but that
also makes it attractive for the user for similar reasons.  that is, i
can put a shortcut on my desktop to point at an sftp/smb/etc resource,
and it will behave mostly like any other folder on my desktop.  (i use
"my" somewhat tongue in cheek here).

for our specific needs, proper gnome-vfs support would more or less
imply that the application would do what we need, since we could
tailor the vfs resource to how/where we wanted it.  of course the
actual implementation would have to behave reasonably (which sadly
counts out sbackup).


	sean

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