Going about beta-testing a program... advice?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:11:06AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Really? I didn't think that was possible. I will need to look into how 
> MySQL does that and maybe I can get my boss to agree to that same 
> license for our program. I just posted a more detail (kind of 
> markety-ish) list of what the program can do so far. If you are curious 
> that might help show what niche it might fit into a little better. My 
> biggest aim through out was to make it as easy to use (once installed) 
> as possible. I hope I did well, I guess time will tell.
> 
> It doesn't support CD/DVD-R (as I mentioned in the other reply) though 
> it is something I have already started to plan for. It's simply hasn't 
> reached a high enough point on the priority list. If you and others ask 
> for it though I will give it a higher priority and get it working.

Well I know DVD backup was key to our backups.  I consider portable HDs
much too fragile for backups.

Adding dvd support using shell scripts to tob was not too hard to do.

backups are done with oen script, and another does diff backups daily,
and if a restore is ever needed tob has an easy way to ask for files
matching a regex (anythhing grep supports) and restores it to wherever
you ask.

It might not be as easy for the user to configure or add, but all it has
for deciding what to backup is a list of directories to backup and a
list of exludes.

Lennart Sorensen
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