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I am also asking to reconsider this feature.
Apple TimeMachine allows you to select several backup locations and it is simple even for non-technical users.
Anyway, we all know that disks can fail and tha remote backup is important (in case of fire, earthquake,...). And there are several cloud storage providers around.
BTW, TimeMachine is able to backup:
a) data of all users on a system
b) system data
It is also very well integrated in Mail.app, so you can revert back to deleted maps/e-mails) directly from Mail.app.
It would be great if DejaDup OR some other software would be able to do similar thing in Linux.
I know it is not a simple task (people are using ecrypted filesystems on their home directories), but it would be great for set-and-forget. Because right now, this is not so easy if there are multiple users on a computer.
Why? You must set DejaDup for each and every user, and if you are backing up to external disk you have a problem with folder rights. It is not something that cannot be solved, but for non-technical people could be complicated ("why I cannot use the same ext4 USB disk as the other user? I have ho rights on the disk???").