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.
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David Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com>