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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Application for backups
From:       Stefan Majewsky <majewsky () gmx ! net>
Date:       2008-06-16 20:26:51
Message-ID: 200806162226.53498.majewsky () gmx ! net
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Am Montag 16 Juni 2008 13:14:47 schrieb Eike Welk:
> On Monday 16 June 2008 12:12, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> > So in summary the requirements for a good backup system would be:
> >
> > - a daemon that is able to keep track of all locally changed files.
> > This is needed to prevent searching for changes multiple hours
> > before the backup could even start.
>
> Dar offers another alternative: It keeps a list of files, that were
> backed up. This way it can make incremental backups independent of
> the server. Dar uses a lot of memory however, this is the downside.
> It works sufficiently well for 1e5 files on my oldish laptop; but I
> had to exclude Beagle's cache from the backup.

I would really like to see something like this: Imagine you create a sync 
profile for your home directory. The backup application automatically all 
subdirectories, but leaves hidden directories (i.e. configuration) out of the 
backup. However, you can choose from a list that you e.g. want KMail's mail 
storage and Konqueror's bookmarks to be synced. Or you can sync your whole 
KDE configuration, and everything in .config, and your Wesnoth settings.

The downside is that the application needs a huge database of what 
configuration files are provided by which applications (inside KDE, this 
could be done by the programmers, but I doubt others will adapt such things 
too fast). Also, the application needs to recognise a home directory or 
something that looks similar.

Stefan

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