From kenneth@hexad.dk on August 01, 2012 00:13:54

Yes, the regular expressions are hard to use, I agree.
René is working on the new UI, so I am assigning this to him.

Owner: rst...@gmail.com
Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement

From ernst.m...@gmail.com on August 01, 2012 01:42:30

Thank You Kenneth for your quick picking up this greatest weak point of Duplicati for improvement in the new UI. I (em4020) am one of the main moderators on AlternativeTo.net: http://alternativeto.net/software/duplicati/ .
On Aug.1th,2012 Duplicati has 27 Likes and 35,73 AlternativeTo-Rank-Points.
For Single-File-Backup I use Cobian backup or the portable Uranium today. With the new UI you can use Duplicati for all purposes. This will increase the popularity of Duplicati more and more. BTW, I have translated the 34 strings to German, which had no translation in the end of July, 2012.

From kenneth@hexad.dk on August 09, 2012 02:03:48

Yes, we have a new dialog almost ready for adding files to Duplicati.
I am not sure if we will do it with picking individual files, but the filter setup will at least be much simpler.

I don't see the use case for picking individual files, except for something like "Backup my Outlook.pst file".

I saw the updated string, and I made a small script that pulls the strings from the spreadsheet whenever I build a new package so they should be in the latest build.

From ernst.m...@gmail.com on August 09, 2012 06:30:48

In our company we have single very important files on the network, which are edited by many persons very often. So the danger to damage them ist great, and sometimes it is necessary to restore a backup from these files, which everyone should can make for himself. So it would be very important to be able to pick individual files with a portable backup software. Cobian backup and Uranium are able to to this, but Cobian cannot be used without admin rights, so until now I make it with Uranium portable free, but Uranium cannot backup open files (VSS) in the free version, and with Duplicati I cannot select single files.
The complete folders are backed up by the IT-department of our company but only every 2 days and only 2 versions back. Sometimes we need the version from a week ago or from 2 hours ago, so we have the demand to make individual backups from some single files, which are very important. I suppose, this demand could exist in other companies tooo. So it would be very fine, if the coming Duplicati-version would be able to selct single files as Cobian BU and Uranium can. Then Duplicati would be the greatest Backup-Software which has all important features in one app alltogether.

From rst...@gmail.com on September 14, 2013 04:29:52

Ability to pick single files was added in the latest development version. As UI screenshots are attached here, I keep this open as long as the new version does not have a UI yet.

Test build: http://www.duplicati.com/news/theduplicati20storageengineishere How it works: https://duplicati.googlecode.com/files/Block-basedstorageformat.pdf

Status: Accepted

implemented in 2.0