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[Richard Bailey <rmjb@xxxxxxxx>]

This actually sounds like a really good idea. One technique I see in use on
some server applications is a text based interface where you choose from
options, i.e. "press 1 for this" and "press 2 for that" and these can go
into further "sub-menus".

For ncurses though I'm wondering if you can leverage midnight commander.

I don't believe there is a command line interface. Dan can confirm but I
think you can go for it.

- All the best!
Richard

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ryan Ahearn <ryan.c.ahearn@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am wondering if there has been any plans to add a command line interface
> to Back in Time.  I'm a big fan BiT, and use it on my desktop and laptop
> computers, but it is difficult to configure on a headless server.
>
> If there are no plans to tackle adding a command line interface, I am going
> to take it on, I just figured it's going to take me awhile and I would hate
> to have it half done just in time to see it being merged into the trunk.
>
> My initial design is still very hazy, but I envision it taking the form of
> another binary package, so you could install backintime-cli, which would
> depend on backintime-common and not worry about having to pull in any GUI
> dependencies, nor install any unneeded cli features for a user that has
> either gnome or kde.  There would be two main parts of the command line
> interface, an ncurses (or similar) based configuration wizard, and a set of
> tools to aid in listing the snapshots a file exists in and copy/restoring an
> old file.
>
> Please let me know if this sounds like a good path to you or if someone is
> already working on a similar feature.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan Ahearn
>
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