Hello all, I have a question : Does this new improved nssbackup check to see whether the file system it is writing to supports file sizes of more than 4Gb ?
Why ? Because, as others have pointed out here, guaranteeing data integrity in an End User backup product (or any backup product for that matter) is an absolute requirement. I have just discovered (as in today), whilst attempting to restore my system after a motherboard burn out, that sbackup fails on big writes to VFAT external USB drives without warning to the user, thereby producing corrupted tgz files which are useless for the purposes of restoring my system. As a business user, this is unacceptable (and even as a personal user, I am mightily upset (an understatement). Essentially, I have 3 months of absolutely useless backups because I put my good faith in a touted as "mainstream End User backup solution". If I were a more vindictive person, I would sue the backside off the persons or entity responsible (Canonical included) for making this software available, and as a lawyer, believe me that would be easy to do, irrespective of all the leakridden liability waivers that may or may not be apparent to the user (of which there are none with sbackup via the graphical interface at least AFAIK). Get it right before you release it into the mainstream distro, otherwise someone, somewhere will end up suing you. I sincerely hope that nssbackup is better, for everyone's sake. Alex Thurgood -- Sbackup should report when a backup fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106155 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
