Hi,
Are there any plans to include a good backup tool for the desktop by default? I have put up deja-dup for review if anyone is interested in checking it out
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540761
Frontend for duplicity (which uses rsync library and gpg keys for encryption) written in Vala. It is a simple backup tool for GNOME and integrates with Nautilus bookmarks etc.
Features:
• Support for local or remote backup locations, including Amazon S3 • Securely encrypts and compresses your data • Incrementally backs up, letting you restore from any particular backup • Schedules regular backups • Integrates well into your GNOME desktop
Rahul
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 04:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi,
Are there any plans to include a good backup tool for the desktop by default? I have put up deja-dup for review if anyone is interested in checking it out
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540761
Frontend for duplicity (which uses rsync library and gpg keys for encryption) written in Vala. It is a simple backup tool for GNOME and integrates with Nautilus bookmarks etc.
Features:
• Support for local or remote backup locations, including Amazon S3 • Securely encrypts and compresses your data • Incrementally backs up, letting you restore from any particular backup • Schedules regular backups • Integrates well into your GNOME desktop
I certainly consider the lack of integrated backup one of the more glaring holes in our desktop. For something to be included in the desktop spin, it needs to be really towards the dead-simple, plug-in-a-backup-disk side. Not sure how well deja-dup fits into that category, I've never tried it. But getting it packaged for Fedora is the right first step in any case. Thanks for doing that !
Matthias
On 12/08/2009 06:52 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
I certainly consider the lack of integrated backup one of the more glaring holes in our desktop. For something to be included in the desktop spin, it needs to be really towards the dead-simple, plug-in-a-backup-disk side. Not sure how well deja-dup fits into that category, I've never tried it. But getting it packaged for Fedora is the right first step in any case. Thanks for doing that !
In case, you want to take a quick look, I have created a scratch build
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1861894
The upstream developer is now CC'ed in my review request.
Rahul
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 20:22 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 04:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi,
Are there any plans to include a good backup tool for the desktop by default? I have put up deja-dup for review if anyone is interested in checking it out
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540761
Frontend for duplicity (which uses rsync library and gpg keys for encryption) written in Vala. It is a simple backup tool for GNOME and integrates with Nautilus bookmarks etc.
Features:
• Support for local or remote backup locations, including Amazon S3 • Securely encrypts and compresses your data • Incrementally backs up, letting you restore from any particular backup • Schedules regular backups • Integrates well into your GNOME desktop
I certainly consider the lack of integrated backup one of the more glaring holes in our desktop. For something to be included in the desktop spin, it needs to be really towards the dead-simple, plug-in-a-backup-disk side. Not sure how well deja-dup fits into that category, I've never tried it. But getting it packaged for Fedora is the right first step in any case. Thanks for doing that !
It took a while, but we do have deja-dup in F13 and rawhide now. And I think it fits pretty well into the category I described here, so I think we should consider including it. Opinions ?
Matthias
Matthias Clasen (mclasen@redhat.com) said:
I certainly consider the lack of integrated backup one of the more glaring holes in our desktop. For something to be included in the desktop spin, it needs to be really towards the dead-simple, plug-in-a-backup-disk side. Not sure how well deja-dup fits into that category, I've never tried it. But getting it packaged for Fedora is the right first step in any case. Thanks for doing that !
It took a while, but we do have deja-dup in F13 and rawhide now. And I think it fits pretty well into the category I described here, so I think we should consider including it. Opinions ?
Has it undergone serious testing? If we toss it in, do we have some confidence that it will work and be stable? (While I realize we're all about pushing things forwards in Fedora, we have to take extra care of people's data.)
Bill
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Matthias Clasen (mclasen@redhat.com) said:
I certainly consider the lack of integrated backup one of the more glaring holes in our desktop. For something to be included in the desktop spin, it needs to be really towards the dead-simple, plug-in-a-backup-disk side. Not sure how well deja-dup fits into that category, I've never tried it. But getting it packaged for Fedora is the right first step in any case. Thanks for doing that !
It took a while, but we do have deja-dup in F13 and rawhide now. And I think it fits pretty well into the category I described here, so I think we should consider including it. Opinions ?
Has it undergone serious testing? If we toss it in, do we have some confidence that it will work and be stable? (While I realize we're all about pushing things forwards in Fedora, we have to take extra care of people's data.)
Thats a fair point. I have only done cursory testing of it. Maybe Rahul can say more about it. I think he said that he's been using it daily for months...
On 03/03/2010 10:42 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
Thats a fair point. I have only done cursory testing of it. Maybe Rahul can say more about it. I think he said that he's been using it daily for months...
deja-dup is a frontend to duplicity which has been around for many years and is a mature and stable software and while I have been using deja-dup itself for the last several months and restored data using it I can't claim to have done extensive testing either Perhaps we can discuss with upstream and put up a test day for this purpose?
Rahul
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 03/03/2010 10:42 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
Thats a fair point. I have only done cursory testing of it. Maybe Rahul can say more about it. I think he said that he's been using it daily for months...
deja-dup is a frontend to duplicity which has been around for many years and is a mature and stable software and while I have been using deja-dup itself for the last several months and restored data using it I can't claim to have done extensive testing either Perhaps we can discuss with upstream and put up a test day for this purpose?
I've been using duplicity for a loong while now and I've had good success.
I've not used deja-dup, yet - but I intend to try it out shortly.
-sv
On 03/03/2010 10:42 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
Thats a fair point. I have only done cursory testing of it. Maybe Rahul can say more about it. I think he said that he's been using it daily for months...
deja-dup is a frontend to duplicity which has been around for many years and is a mature and stable software and while I have been using deja-dup itself for the last several months and restored data using it I can't claim to have done extensive testing either Perhaps we can discuss with upstream and put up a test day for this purpose?
Rahul
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 19:16 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
It took a while, but we do have deja-dup in F13 and rawhide now. And I think it fits pretty well into the category I described here, so I think we should consider including it. Opinions ?
I have now added deja-dup to the defaults in gnome-desktop in comps. Before doing that, Jon and I had a quick look over the UI, and I wrote up a summary of our findings, which you can find here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-March/msg00047.html
Quite a few of these things are easy fixes, so maybe somebody feels inspired to send some patches ?
Matthias
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