backrest
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Windows electron app for Backrest
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I would like to be able to recommend backup programs, like restic/rustic to non-techy family members. This means that a GUI, like what backrest offers, is awesome.
However, it currently seems to not be designed to be a program where I can simply
- Download it
- Start it - automatically opens a GUI window
- Do whatever I need
- Close it
Instead, it is
- Download it
- Start it, and be surprised about a CLI window
- Navigate to http://localhost:9898/ in the browser
- Do whatever I need
- Close the CLI window
Describe the solution you'd like
Would it be reasonable to offer a variant of the GUI which comes with an embedded web browser? (e.g. Tauri or Electron) Then, it'd be possible for backrest to work like
- Download it
- Start it, backrest and a HTTP server get started in the background, and a normal looking GUI gets opened. That normal looking GUI is actually a fully fledged web browser. In the case of Electron, it's a massive embedded Chrome, in the case of Tauri it elegantly embeds the system's web browser.
- I do whatever I need
- I close the window, which also gracefully shuts down the HTTP server and backrest.