Comment 15 for bug 324631

After much consideration, I'm marking this Won't Fix. Here's one section from Déjà Dup's Mission Statement (http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Mission):

"Trying to be everyone's One True Backup Solution is doomed to failure. The best experience can be crafted by targeting a specific audience or use case.

Déjà Dup aims squarely at the casual GNOME desktop user. It will take advantage of the GNOME environment to offer an integrated solution. It is not designed for system administrators, but rather the less technically savvy."

I don't see how this profiles feature fits that focus. Supporting it would add a burden of UI complication, development time, testing time, and maintenance effort as there will most certainly be bugs. These distract from the core focus of offering a simple, first-class backup experience for the 80% use case. The biggest 'competitor' (Apple's Time Machine) does not offer profiles AFAIK.

I'm willing to offer advice/assistance to someone interesting in making/forking a Super Duper Backup App for more advanced use cases. For the interested, the various mockups for this feature are documented here: http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/UIReview/Profiles

But for the foreseeable future, this is not in the DD roadmap.