Explore GUI option

[mattlyons0]

Potentially should be broken out into another package.

Explore: https://askubuntu.com/questions/887976/how-to-launch-a-google-chrome-pop-up-window-using-command

or maybe open a page with javascript to close own tab and open a popup

Would have to make chrome/firefox extension to pass data: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging

[aqumus]

Is anyone looking into creating GUI using rsync-snapshot, I would like to spend some time on creating GUI using electron.js (+react-redux)?

[mattlyons0]

I'd say go for it if you're interested

[aqumus]

I tried executing rsync-snapshot in my windows laptop (in bash and cmd prompt) but it doesn't work.

Windows 10 OS

I had installed rsync-snapshot in my local project and tried running command using
node node_modules\rsync-snapshot --src C:\Users\a\Desktop\rsync-test\src --dst C:\Users\a\Desktop\rsync-test\dest --maxSnapshots 1

Error:

Failed to prepare server for incremental backup: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\tmp\2018-12-25.12-11-31.incomplete.prepare.sh'

Tried debugging and I found out incrementer.js is throwing error (may be because /tmp/XXX is not present in my C: drive but shouldn't the script create it?)

[mattlyons0]

Yeah this won't work on Windows, everything about it depends on Linux related things. Filesystems supporting hardlinks, linux specific commands... I'll add that to the readme