Y reports backup success when a backup is not created

[Morgen]

The default location for backups is /home, for which the user does not have write access. If you don't notice that the location is /home vs. /home/<username> the program reports success through Notify OSD but the backup file is not created. Found this out the hard way, lost all my repos on a reinstall. :(

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

That's weird, for me it asks to save the backup in /home/myusername. But I'll change the way it retrieves the home folder. I'll also add a check to make sure the notification is correct. Thanks!

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

Hmmm it seems this is harder than I thought: it's easy to check if a backup is successful if it's created in the default folder, but if the user saves it somewhere else... then I can't check it. I'm not sure I can fix that part of the bug.

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

I've managed to fix it, a new version should be available in the PPA in a few minutes.

Thanks for the report!

[Morgen (jab-mail-business)]

Wow! That was the quickest bug fix I have ever seen. I got the update
this morning and now backup defaults to the correct location. Also
when I intentionally saved to a write protected location an error pops
up indicating backup failure. Thanks for quick response and a great
program!

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Alin Andrei <email address hidden> wrote:
> ** Changed in: y-ppa-manager
>       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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> Title:
>  Y reports backup success when a backup is not created
>
> Status in Y PPA Manager:
>  Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>  The default location for backups is /home, for which the user does not
>  have write access. If you don't notice that the location is /home vs.
>  /home/<username> the program reports success through Notify OSD but
>  the backup file is not created. Found this out the hard way, lost all
>  my repos on a reinstall. :(
>
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[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

Thanks for the confirmation!