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Idea #16519: Synchronization tool to make backups in USB drives

Written by diegoj the 15 Dec 08 at 17:33. Related project: Gnome. Status: New
Rationale
It would be great to have a program to have a synchronized copy of a folder transparently.

The user would have a daemon that when detects the conection of a USB device it will look for a backup synchronization folder. If the device has got one of these, this program would copy the new content of the hard-disk folder to the backup disk.

My idea is like having an *repository* with a copy in a pendrive. Thus, making the updates to the backup device in a seamless way.

Some improvements of this software could be: adding support for encryption, adding support for commit to the hard drive, setting folder size limits, viewing which files has been changed.

It would be very interesting for people that has got important data in their hard-drives.

With the popularity of the pendrives (it's easy to have some of 16GB), and the needed of "backuping" data, this software could be a seriosly advantage for Ubuntu.

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #16519
Written by diegoj the 15 Dec 08 at 17:33.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #16519 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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Solution #2: USB Startup Disk system creator to provide more options
Written by nillbug the 7 Dec 09 at 00:24.
USB Startup Disk to include the option to add to the usb all or part of the programs installed in hard disk.
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Solution #3: USB Startup Disk to allow synchcronizations
Written by nillbug the 7 Dec 09 at 00:33.
This is to be used when a usb recorded at a given Ubuntu PC, with the "USB Startup System Tool", is used somewhere else, and changes are made to some file or configurations originally in it.

Once back to the original PC, the "USB Startup System Tool" could provide an option to allow a synchronization.

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DieB wrote on the 17 Dec 08 at 02:00
will come with conduit in the next gnome release - i bet.

JimmyVolatile wrote on the 5 Feb 09 at 21:52
Providing an automated backup/synchro of a user's USB pendrive is one of those gem ideas that actually affect a lot of common users.

Point is: Many less than computer-savvy people store all their documents on pen-drives which they carry around everywhere. Providing a discreet offer to back up their pen-drive whenever they plug it into their computer would likely befriend many of them forever.

On Windows, any kind of automated USB pendrive backup is extremely tedious to achieve. I normally go with SyncBack for this but for the average user, it's simply a hazzle to set up.

I know it's no small thing to ask for but this is really a chance to stand apart from the competition.

Say, if Ubuntu simply asked something like "keep pen-drive backed up" whenever you plugged in a new pen-drive?

That would actually be unique among the 3 main OS's (Linux, OSX and Windows) I think.



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