<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Bernie Innocenti wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1274143356.8922.92.camel@giskard" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">El Mon, 17-05-2010 a las 15:20 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard escribió: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I am still thinking of the "sneakernet" use case where there is no networking to use for backup. It does NOT backup or restore the journal. (It will restore to a new unchanged script created USB. (I am still testing). This would be useful if the overlay got corrupted or full.. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Why backup the entire OS when the user can only write to $HOME? </pre> </blockquote> You are right. I was experimenting... I will change the instructions to reflect only Home backups, * I have seen "/ full " error messages on restore.... <blockquote cite="mid:1274143356.8922.92.camel@giskard" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">(Besides, the overlay should never get corrupted because it shouldn't even exist, but that's another story :-) </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The deja-dup functionality is neat: </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yeah, I know it's good: I made everyone in the office use it for their computers. Besides, we use Duplicity to back up all Sugar Labs' servers. We could use Duplicity to backup to USB sticks and even Amazon S3, but I still think that the UI should be integrated with the control panel or perhaps with the Journal (through menu items "Back up" and "Restore" directly on the device icon). </pre> </blockquote> I agree. Unfortunately that is not something I am able to do.... Until you, or someone else, can incorporate that function into the CP A Sugarized deja-dup backup will have to do. Cordially; Tom Gilliard </body> </html>