deja-dup Desktop Backup tool

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed Mar 3 17:12:06 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matthias Clasen (mclasen at redhat.com) said: 
> > > I certainly consider the lack of integrated backup one of the more
> > > glaring holes in our desktop. For something to be included in the
> > > desktop spin, it needs to be really towards the dead-simple,
> > > plug-in-a-backup-disk side. Not sure how well deja-dup fits into that
> > > category, I've never tried it. But getting it packaged for Fedora is the
> > > right first step in any case. Thanks for doing that !
> > 
> > 
> > It took a while, but we do have deja-dup in F13 and rawhide now. And I
> > think it fits pretty well into the category I described here, so I think
> > we should consider including it. Opinions ?
> 
> Has it undergone serious testing? If we toss it in, do we have some
> confidence that it will work and be stable? (While I realize we're all
> about pushing things forwards in Fedora, we have to take extra care of
> people's data.)

Thats a fair point. I have only done cursory testing of it. Maybe Rahul
can say more about it. I think he said that he's been using it daily for
months...



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