Yes, yes, yes. I fully agree. Currently I use an anacron job running rdiff-backup, but this is CLEARLY not right for non-techie users. I stopped using Simple Backup ages ago... it was really deficient. For one thing, its incremental backups had to be restored like so: 1) restore last full backup 2) restore next incremental 3) rinse and repeat until you're restored to the right date.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Aaron Whitehouse <li...@whitehouse.org.nz>wrote: > Hello all, > > According to: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem > "Backup is essential." However, no tool to backup the system is > available in the default installation. > > By contrast, Mandrake (as it was then) included an excellent simple > option built-in when I used it around five years ago: > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Howto/Drakbackup > > I have just read through all of the Wiki pages I could find on the topic: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Home?action=fullsearch&from=0&context=180&value=backup > and it seems that each release brings a new spec to include a backup > program by default and, each release, people write out the use-cases, > set out the alternative backup programs available and argue about > missing features. Then the release happens and no backup program is > installed by default. > > Simple-backup-suite appears to be the most officially-sanctioned backup > solution for the simple use-case and I understand that it was designed > for Ubuntu (during the 2005 GSoC) for this purpose. Unfortunately, the > project does not seem at all maintained, which makes it unlikely that > bugs will be fixed or features added. The facility to restore backups is > also pretty primitive (as far as I can tell), requiring the user to > search through each backup file one-by-one to find the correct > version(s) of a file, rather than having any master indexes. > > I would really like to see Canonical/Ubuntu officially support this > crucial part of the desktop. There are so many choices for backup, each > with subtle differences, that having a recommendation would be very > valuable to all but the most skilled backup experts. Canonical/Ubuntu > supporting one backup program would also no-doubt encourage further > activity in that program. Finally, there could be excellent > (revenue-generating?) opportunities to offer an option to backup to > Ubuntu One etc. > > I understand and appreciate the differences between the backup programs > (some using inotify and hard-links, some using diffs and archive files > etc.), but I feel that it is one of those cases where it is more > important to encourage the user to backup the system in any of the > available ways than to keep arguing about the most technically-correct > approach. > > Regards, > > Aaron > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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