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      The <app>Simple Backup</app> Configuration user interface.
    </desc>
    <revision pkgversion="0.2" version="0.1" date="2010-03-10" status="draft">
    </revision>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Jean-Peer Lorenz</name>
      <email>peer.loz@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
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  <title>Configuration User Interface</title>

  <p>
    <app>SBackup</app>, shortform of Simple Backup suite, is a backup
    solution for common desktop use.
  </p>
  <p>
    <app>SBackup</app> is basically using the same technology that Unix
    administrators have been used for decades but it adds some some intelligence
    for interaction with users within a graphical interface. This means dumps of
    files were created using the good old TAR but the usage is much more
    convenient than from a command line.
  </p>
  
  <section id="intro-feature-overview">
  <title>Feature overview</title>
  
  <terms>
    <item>
      <title>Profiles Management</title>
      <p>
        You can have multiple Backup Profiles in order to prepare
        different backups to be performed e.g. one for your photos, one for
        personal settings, and one more for your documents. A Backup Profile
        is a comprehensive configuration comprising of separate specified
        locations, includes and excludes etc.
      </p>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Snapshots Management</title>
      <p>
        A general management of backups is provided. Management of snapshots
        includes the change of the base of a backup, deleting a backup, and the
        transfer of backups.
      </p>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Compression Options</title>
      <p>
        Simple Backup allows to choose you from 3 different compressions:
        Gzip, Bzip2, and uncompressed. You can use uncompressed backups e.g.
        for making a backup of photos, which are already compressed, without
        wasting time and resources.
      </p>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Split of the Archive</title>
      <p>
        In order to make backups suitable for burning onto CD or DVD or just in
        the case of a harddisk formatted with FAT32, it is possible to make a
        backup with the resulting backup file divided into files of specified
        size.
      </p>
      <note>
        <p>
          If you want to use the split feature please consider its limitation:
          The snapshots are required to be uncompressed.
        </p>
      </note>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Logarithmic Purge</title>
      <p>
        The removal of old backups in a logarithmic manner.
      </p>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>System Program Restore</title>
      <p>
        On Debian based systems <app>SBackup</app> makes a backup of the
        list of software installed. You can use this list from an arbitrary
        backup(at the terminal) to restore the state of installed software.
      </p>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Command line interface</title>
      <p>
        Any core functionality can be accessed by plain text editors and
        shell commands. Therefore, <app>SBackup</app> can easily be
        installed on a server without X.
      </p>
    </item>
    
</terms>
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