Le mercredi 11 mai 2011 à 12:16 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > > FWIW, this is exactly the use-case I'm missing. I would like to copy > my > > personal data to an external hard drive, remote server or cloud > storage > > service, so that if my hard drive goes boom, I can get my settings, > > documents, photos, etc back after installing a new distribution on a > new > > system. I'm not that bothered about a full system recovery for a > GNOME > > back-up tool. > > > > So I applaud your focus :) > > That's because you're lead to believe that it's enough :) From desktop point of view, we usually do no modification of any kind except for /home. It takes 20-30 minutes to install a distro these days, and same to install a system backup. Base on that, doing a full system backup seems a waste to me. As long as I can recover my home into some newly created user account, I think it's enough. Also, when a hard disk breaks, I tend to buy a bigger one. Using distribution installer let me reconfigure the partitioning (or let the distro do it) from an user interface I already learned before. For sure, if your looking for server backup it's a different story. But in reality, servers these days are not backup using integrated UI. Most of the time, server are virtual, which makes backups something really different. Also, my previous experience trying to help someone using Time Machine and Time Capsule on OS X was not so great. It ended up using the capsule as a hard-drive and simply copying manually stuff over, as it was much simpler to get stuff back. The tech support argument is interesting, but my corporate experience tells me that we never endup having full system backup for user Desktop). The reason is that it's time and disk consuming. What I've seen the most, is user profile being store on central server, and tools to track software and licenses on each desktop. I'm guessing on this one, but also tools to reinstall from the ground those machine with the same softwares and licenses. At last, I don't think the futuristic system wide backup should delay having per-user backup. When this advance system wide backup support exist, we could simply improve the UI and give more options to administrators, and if an admin has setup system wide backup, cleanly inform the non-privileged user that backup is already configured by the system administrator. I would be really surprised such a complex system wide tool gets written and reach a solid state soon, and even there, I would be really surprise if sys-admin would start using such a young implementation right away. Also, restoring user home from a user setting is quite simple, but restoring a full system requires alternative OS, which is usually distro expertise, not a UX expertise (I don't agree Gnome 3 is an OS, but its clearly a UX). cheers, Nicolas
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