Hi everyone! Besides some other interesting ideas I saw on the list I'd like to make another suggestion: Since years Kubuntu has no essential, easy to use backup tool pre-installed. On KDE 3 I used (and in fact still use) Keep. But this tool isn't developed any further and has some glitches, for example auto-backups don't work (only for me?). It was my idea to make some sort of follower of Keep basing on KDE 4/Qt 4. The aim should be a backup system that is - reliable(!) - easy to use (especially for new users that just wont to backup their data without the need of background information about thing like increments, diffs and so on) - decent (as long as everything works fine the user won't be disturbed, only unintrusive notifications will indicate the start and stop of the automatic process) So for the beginning it will be a quite a simple backup tool but I guess it will fit the needs of a majority of average users. As backend I would use rdiff-backup (as Keep did, too) because it allows space efficient incremental backups and usually is very fast after the initial backup. Also it is known to work very well and it preserves filesystem-specific attributes. I would like to know if there is any interest in such an application, then I would write a complete application. As I have seen this was asked for GSoC 2006 already and as far as I know nothing has changed till then... Also this time a backup tool is a suggested Idea (but I guess it is meant for Gnome), so if someone is doing that job we could maybe share a common backend. So now it is your decision :-) I'm waiting for further questions, suggestions and your opinion.