Something like BackInTime
An integrated newbie friendly backup application would be nice
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Sounds like a very good idea. Has anything been posted on brainstorm?
Cool, I've never seen Back in Time, I'l have to try it out. It looks vastly better than Simple Back Up Config..
+1
I could never get BackInTime to restore, and all the links that it uses meant manual restore was a complete pain.
skierkyles said: Cool, I've never seen Back in Time, I'l have to try it out. It looks vastly better than Simple Back Up Config..
Yeah but sbackup is much more useful if you want to back up to another medium. TimeVault/Back In Time are not very useful if your drive dies.
a fully integrated backup solution would be a good slam against both Windows and Mac OS -- all for free. We should try to gather some more information here and work up a blueprint.
durand said: Yeah but sbackup is much more useful if you want to back up to another medium. TimeVault/Back In Time are not very useful if your drive dies.
backintime can backup to another medium.
backintime is not useful when your drive dies? Can sbackup resurrect a dead drive? I don't think any backup program can do that. If your backup disc dies, you'll anyway have to run for a 'recovery' program unless you have a backup of your backups.
I would imagine if your backup drive fails then you buy a new one and make a new backup from the master copy? Seems the obvious thing to do to me, unless your backup happens to break at the same time as your main disk...
Anyway, yep something like this would be awesome. Simple backup is ok, but it doesn't really encourage the average user to bother.
What I meant was if the main drive failed, then you would have a backup in a separate location. I assumed that Back In Time worked like timevault in that it keeps everything on the main drive? Or am I wrong about that?
I'm not saying that Back in Time is not useful. I used timevault mainly for its diff-ing system so that I could restore an older version of a file if I didn't like the newest version. I guess back in time is more of a backing up solution than for travelling back in "time"?
The appropriate place to suggest and discuss ideas at their preliminary stage is Ubuntu Brainstorm. Let's keep this forum to general discussion and testing assistance.