Make fresh-system restore experience rock

Bug #320010 reported by Michael Terry
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Déjà Dup
Expired
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

It would be nice if:

A) I produced a thumb drive image or ISO that included Deja Dup for restoring onto a fresh system. Maybe it would optionally allow installing Linux too (like an Ubuntu Live CD), but preferably distro-agnostic.

B) Then, make that experience good. Probably requires figuring out username to install single-home backups into. Guiding user through setup. Backing up directly onto the disk (rather than to /tmp first, then disk).

C) Part of this might be making backing up the entire hard drive easier. And then just recommending that user's dump the restore onto a blank disk.

Michael Terry (mterry)
Changed in deja-dup:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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mb (maxbloemer) wrote :

What about including a tool or option like "create a Restore-Live-CD" including the decryption key of the user. This could help the user in two situations:
1) A user's HDD has been crashed. Data and keys are lost. After replacing the defective drive with a new one, the user easily can restore his encrypted remote backups with this Live-CD.
2) A user want to backup his encryptions key to a CD and store it in a safe place anywhere at home. The key-backup-cd is a deja-dup-live-cd too.
Maybe remote connection settings (except passwords) could be included. Of course the user should be aware that he is including his keys. So maybe call it "create $user's personal restore CD" or "create deja-dup Live CD for $user". Also some additional information or warnings would be good. Having network drivers available on live CD seem to be essential. But when the user can install ubuntu with this live CD too, there is maybe the risk that he give his personal (key containing) CD to others as an ubuntu installation CD. A spartanic ubuntu-live system with gtk, deja-dup and dependencies seem to be a better idea than an all-in-one CD suitable for every purpose.

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Pete Goodall (pgoodall) wrote :

Could be integrated into ubiquity. There is already a function to restore files from another install/partition. Another option could be restore from Deja Dup backup.

Changed in deja-dup:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Déjà Dup because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in deja-dup:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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