home user back up project using deja dup

[Michael Terry]

I'm not on the mailing list, so please CC: me.  Comments below.

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 14:59 +0530, shahansad kollaparambath wrote:
> Deja Dup written in vala has most of the features required for a back
> up utility, but has a very unfortunate GUI to go along with it. Also
> it lacks the profiles feature.  I propose to create a new GUI to Deja
> Dup using gtk+ which will be intuitive and support profiles.

I'm the author of Deja Dup.  Writing a new GUI seems like a big leap.
It might be better to incrementally improve any issues with the existing
GUI.  Do you have particular suggestions?

David Bensimon (cc'ed) also had a backup idea for GSoC that also turned
into 'improving Deja Dup'.  I think the two ideas could probably be
collapsed.  I talked with David about possible features that would be
good for students.

I started a page on Deja Dup's wiki to track them:
http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/GSoC

So I'm certainly open to helping mentor students.  David also said he
would help with some of the mentoring work.

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mterry • Canonical
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