| Matthew Rosewarne on 27 Oct 2007 00:39:53 -0000 |
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On Friday 26 October 2007, jeff wrote: > With my chosen OS, the experience was different. There was no easy > selection in *any* of the programs, regardless of gui/cli. Some require > you to specify dirs on the cli or put together a text file of dirs/files > to back up. I had to figure out the entire paradigm of lin backing up > and figure out what might work best for me. I gave up on feel early and > kinda got frustrated, settling on something that might work and spending > what I consider too much time making it work. I've hit the exact same wall. I would expect the reason there aren't easy-to-use backup programs is the relative lack of use of Linux by non-technical desktop users. I used to use Keep, and while it does work, I found it to be very poorly designed. In the end, I gave up and used what Keep used as its backend, rdiff-backup. It's a shame, since Keep is so close, but would probably need a rewrite to make it truly usable. In case you're interested, the problem with Keep is that it calls the rdiff-backup program and waits for it to complete. This means that while doing any operation with Keep, the UI blocks and you just have to hope that it's actually working. It also isn't threaded, so it actually blocks the rest of the KDE services, holding up some important functions of the desktop until it's finished (which can be a very long time). To fix that problem, Keep would have to be mostly rewritten as to have the functionality of rdiff-backup implemented internally, so it could make use of it in a more sane manner. Attachment:
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