On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 11:36 +0100, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
kde keep for the actual backup tool. It seems simpler than the gnome one, pybackpack, though he is running Gnome. We need as few options as possible!
Why even bother with a backup tool, If you are only backing up the home dir why not just have a simple script (with a desktop launcher icon) that rsync's the contents of /home/user to the mounted stick and then unmounts it and prompts the user to remove it ?
For extra points use gdialog to prompt when it is complete etc.
The only time I resort to backup software of some kind on Linux is when I want to keep multiple backup snapshots on the same device...I don't see there being a lot of scope for this on a usb stick and in cases like that I tend to resort to a simple script (usually in my case run by cron and reporting via email..but you don't really need that level of autonomy by the sounds of it)
A second usb stick to be used for carrying files around and transferring them to other people (in addition to email).
Any other thoughts appreciated. These are mostly text files with some graphics, ie the volume is not huge. The home directory will fit on a 2G usb drive for the forseeable future.
Al
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