> 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
