On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 13:20 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > 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 definitely agree here. It can't be an all-or-nothing proposition. And there has to be provisions to exclude certain directories (if I exclude my ~/rpm heirarchy, I cut out quite a few gigs right there). And the ability to 'pause' the sync for those cases where the user knows they aren't going to be up long and/or really need the pipe so they can get that critical file for their boss. -- David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
