On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 09:28:39 pm Kevin Kofler wrote:
Hi,
on IRC, we have been discussing lately whether we should add a dedicated
backup application to our live image (we probably should), and which
one(s).
I have collected some thoughts on the following wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Backup_Solution
In short, we need to collect the common use cases and requirements (and
also check which of them, if any, are already covered by e.g. Dolphin or
Ark), and then evaluate how well the existing backup applications cover
them. (Writing an entirely new application is not really in the scope of
this discussion, it'd be a long-term task in any case. But this discussion
MIGHT also be the starting point for such a project.)
I have started by collecting some features I would like to see, but some of
those might not be really needed (at least for most users), and there may
be more important ones I have forgotten. (I'd like to know about any
additional features people would like to see.) My list is just the output
of the brainstorming I did, it is by no means intended to be final or
binding.
See the wiki page for details.
If you have any feedback, you can:
* reply to this mail on this mailing list,
* use the discussion (Talk) page attached to the wiki page,
* edit the wiki directly and/or
* come to discuss this on IRC in the #fedora-kde channel on Freenode.
We would appreciate any user feedback on this.
One installation time use case - to make a backup of your current system as
you're going to play with your partitions, formating etc. and you want to be
sure you don't touch for example other OSes... I prefer connecting USB disk and
making 1:1 copy (dd like but of course - clever one, only occupied space).
Something like
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page but there's no ext4 support :(
If I want to reinstall from scratch - then solution listed in Wiki is more
suitable.
R.
Kevin Kofler
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