Status of Home User Backup?

[Sean Hammond]

Hmm... had a quick try at backing a small folder in my homedir to
elsewhere in my homedir. Didn't work -- it didn't create any files in
the backup folder, then verification of the backup fails. There's lot
of technical language used in the app too.

On 10/11/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just want to ask what the status of the Home User Backup application
> in Edgy is?
>
> Wiki page here:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup?highlight=%28home%29%7C%28user%29%7C%28backup%29
>
> Launchpad spec:
>
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/home-user-backup
>
> I see that a version 0.0.5 of hubackup is present in Edgy. I installed
> it, and it looks like a working app for simple backups and restores
> (although actually the restore app doesn't seem to launch on my
> system).
>
> I don't see support for slicing backups over multiple files in it,
> unless it does that automatically depending on the backup media
> chosen. And indeed the wiki page says that is "already supports
> multi-volume backups over CDs."
>
> Is this usable now?
>