Homedir backup (was Re: "Stateless Linux" project)

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Sep 15 17:22:23 UTC 2004


> The question in my mind is: is an automatic homedir backup concept
> attainable?
> 
>  I think the word we're going to keep running into trouble on is
> 'automatic'. We've got to get the user to leave it the hell alone for
> long enough to get the data and you're going to need to tell the user
> how long that will be in some sort of progress bar or notification.
> 
> I think a good place to start would be a user-enabled homedir backup
> utility. Something graphical, simple but reasonably configurable
> (exclusion lists, inclusion lists, etc). Then move on from there on how
> to invoke it automatically.
> 
> But we're not really anywhere close to the latter afaict.

I could definitely see a good place to start is to make the backup
software nagware. It tracks the lack backup date and throbs like the
rhn-applet until the user runs its until completion.

-sv






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