Anders Johansson wrote:
For example, you can't start a GUI from cron, and most backup programs aren't designed to be run manually. The GUI usually comes in when you want to restore things
Something like 'timemachine' or similar, would have to be run off of something like famd or similar. You'd need notifications of when files changed so you could make a new copy. But cron might do the dailies... then again, it might be a standalone daemon running to control the backups, but also handle asynchronous notifications of file changes during the backup. It's so much a shame that volume snapshots can't be somehow archived and stored more efficiently, since combined with some browsing system like one can use through samba, one can restore previous versions of files that are stored in snapshots -- now if only they could be stored for months at a time...
If we already have the functionality...
Do we? I'm not sure of anything on linux that does the above. And while somethign Q&D could be thrown together, one would want bullet-proof....
All I meant was that if we have the core functionality of Time Machine, then we're not that far away from having the whole thing.
I don't know of anything similar for general purposes.... .
Command line backup utilities are indeed plentiful. rsync, tar (I have had issues with star, it doesn't always back up everything, there are bugs in it),
--- Really? Haven't run into them. seemed to copy everything including kitchen sink and was much faster than rsync. That's my issue w/rsync -- it's speed is abysmal for what it does, when used on local file systems or local GbLAN's...
but I completely agree that we need a nice GUI for restoring, for selecting which files to restore. You read my email as a rant against GUIs, but that is not what I intended. I was just taking stock of what we had, not what we needed
Sorry, I guess given that GUI's are not my expertise, I know them to be a make or break feature on products, and didn't want any of us to fall into the old engineering mindset of cmdline is enough (even though it's 'sufficient'... *ahem* :-)). linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org