Destroying "only" your home directory (was Re: Newbie question on permissions)

[Michael T. Richter]

On Mon, 2006-03-04 at 00:42 -0500, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

> If you are looking for a backup solution for power users, you can stop
> now.  They don't need another backup solution.  


If by "power user" you mean "geeks steeped in the UNIX attitude" then
yes.  But that's not what I mean.  I mean, say, an accountant who messes
around with his system on weekends by "power user".  As in a regular
end-user with a bit more knowledge.  (In the UNIX world this typically
means enough knowledge to really f*** himself over.)


> If you are looking for a
> backup solution for a user that doesn't do command line or scripts,
> Nautilus, among others, solves this problem for 95% of cases. 


Nautilus doesn't do file versioning.  It doesn't do
incremental/differential backups.  You can't flexibly include or exclude
files.  It is not a backup solution.  It is a hideous hack!

Go talk to an actual end-user sometime.  Or, rather, instead of talking
go and listen to an end-user.  Most end-users are tired of geeks talking
at them.  Watch them, instead, try and use your "solutions" and see why
end-users hate computers and the people who make them.

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