Add a "cancel after n hours" option to nssbackup configuration

[B.J. Herbison]

Some incremental backups have been seen to take a long time (see reports from me and Jean-Peer in https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+question/116342 ). If a backup isn't working, it would be nice to cancel it and try again.

Proposal: Add a "cancel after n hours" option to nssbackup configuration. Allow the user to optionally specify that the next backup attempt after a failed backup should always be a full backup.

Proposed UI (based on this report and my previous request to separate run frequency from backup frequency):

   Check to see if a backup should be run: [n] minutes/hours/days
   Run an incremental backup every : [n] hours/days
   Perform a full backup every: [n] hours

   [x] Cancel an incremental backup if it takes more than: [n] hours
   The last successful full backup took 0 days 4 hours 15 minutes. (Informational message to guide setting for above parameter)
      [x] Always run a full backup after an incremental backup is canceled.

Using:

Ubuntu 10.04
uname -a : Linux Oofy 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 08:03:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

From Ubuntu Software Center: Version: 0.2.1ppa1~lucid1 (nssbackup)
From Configurator help: (Not So) Simple Backup Suite 0.2.1

Installed from a PPA

[Jean-Peer Lorenz (peer.loz)]

Thanks for reporting.

The current development version already provides an option to cancel a running backup :) The second suggestion sounds reasonable. I'm setting this to 'Opinion' in order to collect some more speakings about it.