Hello Aigars! <div>On 12/2/05, Aigars Mahinovs <<a href="mailto:aigarius@debian.org">aigarius@debian.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I would be very happy to hear any constructive criticism and feature suggestions as I plan to do a slight refactoring of SBackup and thus now is the best time to come up with thing that would influence the new architecture of the system. </blockquote><div> Few suggestions: 1. In case of manual backups, backgrounding process is bad idea. What if it fails? And even if it won't, i'd like to know, what it is doing and when will it finish. I can't easily cancel it eihter. Backgrounding should be optional not default. 2. Stephen Hemminger mentioned already that restore is more important than backup itself. Sbackup is only usable in gnome, but what if user runs kde? And lack of CLI is really important, since sbackup is not usable in rescue mode (in case x or gnome is broken OR machine is server OR machine is administrated via ssh, etc.) 3. If sbackup worked in CLI it should include itself in every backup, but it shouldn't be compressed. This would help in situations,  when user decides to switch to another distro, where sbackup is not included. It would also help, if /usr/sbin  is (accidentaly) deleted or damaged, but it was included in last backup. 4. User data should be seperated from system data (seperate archives). When I'll upgrade to drake or change distro I would like to have an option to restore only user data, not /bin, /usr, /etc, etc. This would also let me easily get rid of old system data, which won't be used anyway, but still keep useful user data archives. 5. Ordinary (non-root/sudo) users should have a right to use this tool too. Have you checked other backup tools included in ubuntu? I haven't so perhaps it is  possible to build upon them? </div></div> -- Sandis