On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 15:49 +0200, Michael Terry wrote: > Hello! You may remember me as the bloke that proposed the Déjà Dup > backup tool as a GNOME module a little back, right as modules were > being reorganized. > > I've been encouraged to try again as a Feature. I don't fully > understand the process, but I gather an email to this list starts it > off. > > Here's a quick thousand foot view: > * Homepage here: https://launchpad.net/deja-dup > * It's a backup program aimed at non-technical users. > * It's a graphical wrapper and policy manager for the backup program duplicity. > * It's included by default in Fedora 13 on and will be default in Ubuntu 11.10. > * It follows the GNOME schedule and best practices already. > > For the next major version (20.0), I've done a redesign aimed at > making it more "invisible" and appear as part of the OS. I've made it > live just as a control center panel and removed some branding to look > a bit less like a separate app. See > http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Screenshots/Future for screenshots. > Déjà Dup 19.1, which includes those changes, is already in Fedora > Rawhide and will be in Ubuntu Oneiric once we land the GNOME 3 control > center. > > I suspect GNOME might be interested in having a "backup story" so I'm > offering this one. And I'd be happy to have increased design advice > and developer eyeballs. +1 for extra applications. I think there are many valid use-cases when backup is not needed (kiosk, /home on NFS with internal backup). Currently I'm missing: - The off-line storing to external hardware. I.e. I have relatively small disk in laptop so I cannot store too much on it. The same goes for network. Preferable I'd like: - Make backup daily to disk. Preferably with vary low priority - When I connect disk to computer I'd like to have copy all backups automatically - The snapshot feature. Many FS (say ZFS) or block devices (LVM) allows to create a snapshot of disk. The deja-dup possibly could policykit to allow snapshot of volume: DD: I'd like to snapshot $HOME Daemon (I assume after auth): (a) Here it is /mnt/snapshot/XYZABC DD: Uses /mnt/snapshot/XYZABC to backup DD: Ok. I don't use it anymore (b) I cannot make it DD: ok (do backup directly) For large $HOME it may be preferable Regards
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