Backup and restore

[Hedblom]

Hello Hendrik and the rest,

I wholeheartedly agree on this. Its not that easy to make backups in linux if youre not a fairly seasoned linux user. A GUI app or anything that points the user in the right direction would help very much.

If this is not possible maybe a link to a help page would suffice. The biggest problem is not to interpret the help texts, its finding the right documentation thats not intuitive and makes newbs go nuts. Why not a page like http://ubuntuguide.org but tailored for the most common tasks in Edubuntu? For a newb that wants to get going fast its priceless when you can cut/paste and make things work without reading 10+ pages of documentation. I would gladly contribute my tweaks and tips to it.

Aside from that i want to thank the Edubuntu team for the best Linux Terminal Server ever, come to sweden and i buy you all the beer you can handle.

/daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: Hendrik Boshoff <hfvb at ing.rau.ac.za>
To: edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: den 10 februari 2006 kl 10:13 GMT+0100
Subject: Backup and restore


I think it would be a good idea to have a little GUI applet under Applications -> System Tools of Edubuntu Gnome to do backup and restore using tar. I have seen Archive Manager, but it is still too open-ended. If Edubuntu is really targeted at educators who are not geeks, the function of system and user backup is essential, but not obvious how to accomplish. The options should be kept simple, like choosing full vs incremental backup, whole system vs user data only, and selection of storage medium. The specification of tar switches and standard directory exclusions should be automatic. 

I know the features for Dapper has been frozen, so this can be included later. 

Is there anyone else who has thoughts on this? Could it be useful for Ubuntu as well? 

Hendrik Boshoff 


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