Introduction and an Idea

2008-11-09 Thread Thomas Cameron
Hello all, This is my first post to ubuntu-devel-discuss, but not my first posting to a linux development list. I posted to ubuntu-devel after being directed there, but that group is literally ubuntu developers only. Anyway, I was heavily active on the lists in the earlier days of BusyBox and uCli

Re: Introduction and an Idea

2008-11-10 Thread Dylan McCall
Hi, Here's a bit of a tangent on my part, but ideas grow well when there are a few different ones! I was thinking that the conventional "backup tool" is a rather unnecessary, kludgey design. Perhaps this could be accomplished with a "backup:" URI implemented in gvfs, where backup destinations get

Re: Introduction and an Idea

2008-11-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Dylan McCall ha scritto: > > * We should present revisions of files. With backups happening > passively, a super intelligent system could do them to multiple > media. If we do a conventional backup, we can avoid user intervention in configuration by automatically creating a