system restore/backup

[Dario Davì]

Hi Sam and Anirudh,
I think I agree with Anirudh. Existing tools are powerful, we just need to
use them in a better way. For my experience I should use rsync. But I think
that the concept is making a good GUI that organizes all the work for you in
a few simple steps. To do this I should use the Qt framework, because it's
really good. Anyway we could make a Ubuntu version with gtk or pyrhon/gtk
and a Kubuntu version using Qt. Here I list some useful features of rsync if
you are interested:

- Incremental backup;
- Bandwith managment in case of remote backup server;
- Resume in case of network link loss;
- Exclude and include directory paths;
- Exclude and include file types;
- Native support for ssh protocol;
- Data compression during network transfer;
- Percentage of done work (stupid but useful..) ;

This is just a suggestion based on my experience.. I proposed rsync since
there are several online backup service that use it, and so the user can
choose to pay an external service to have an online backup. Or maybe it can
be integrated with ubuntu one service in the future (I don't know if ubuntu
one uses rsync, but it can be easy implemented..)
Anyway I think we should consider using dd too to save MBR and partition
table data, so the system che be really restored in case of disaster..

Hope I haven't bored you too much ;)
Let me know what you think about,
Dario
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