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Idea #14246: Recovery and backup tool

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #1: Easy way of backing up/moving your documents and settings.
Written by pezzos the 9 Oct 08 at 15:44. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
The backup is very important in a system.
There are two important things:
- The system itself
- User data

For the system:
1 - during the installation, the user should be able to create a small additional partition
2 - at the end of the installation, the system will copy itself and will be named : default or whatever...
3 - during the system's life and at regular intervals, during an install or at the request of the user, the user could update the backup differentially and dated
4 - during a crash, choose the option "recovery" in grub and choose what backup use to restore at a particular date
It could be very useful to test Ubuntu alpha or beta release!

For the data system:
1 - during installation, the user should be able to create a /home partition to install again the system without losing his documents
and optional :
1 - at the request of the user, a partition could be created to backup user data
2 - user-defined important documents through an interface
3 - during the system's life and at regular intervals or at the request of the user should update the backup differentially (to tracking changes, useful in business) or complete (to avoid duplication)
4 - to retrieve the files, the user have to go into special interface and select the file to restore

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #14246
Written by pezzos the 9 Oct 08 at 15:44.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #14246 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 22:56
Sounds like a request for TimeVault with a few additions. Good additions though.

+1

Ubun2ideas wrote on the 10 Oct 08 at 03:24
+1 Ubuntu needs a good backup system. Saving and restoring your system should be as easy as in video games where you can save your game, and restore from that - or another saved point - in the game.

cubytus wrote on the 10 Oct 08 at 04:38
+1

Time Machine really deserves to be imited :p and bettered

Once again, Apple sets the norm, we have to catch with them lol.

I'm used to backup my data "old style" (select each folder one by one, burn them to DVD-R), but having a HDD constant backup system plus an option to burn a given snapshot of the backup HDD onto DVD-R would be wonderful.

Why double the fonctionality? Because HDD do fail, even backup ones, and DVD-Rs, although they can fail, too, are very cheap for the capacity, therefore freeing valuable space on the backup HDD.

Of course, everything should be as transparetn as Time Machine, only reminding the user if he wants to burn the most recent snapshot of its data as HDD fills in. Perhaps the best way to give out this message would be in the mail client? Who doesn't check his mails regularly?

nicoladimaria wrote on the 10 Oct 08 at 05:49
data storage is cheaper day by day, take advantage of this !
dvd snapshot is also great (automatically splitted).
I'm using sbackup right now, luckily I didn't need to restore anything till now.

pezzos wrote on the 10 Oct 08 at 12:26
Yes, the ability to burn a given snapshot is a good idea too.
Maybe add the ability to sync the backup with a remote backup (paranoid mode!).
The user have to choose the media of course, but a constant backup system on a HDD is important.
I think it's important to recover his system from grub.


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