Comment 5 for bug 622496
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| BlueLight (bluelight-auroville) wrote Re: problem occurs if nssbackup is run with the destination drive not present. It looses the config info. | #5 |
Since sbackup and later nssbackup and much later nsbackup has been developed with a normal user in mind (as far as I understood) and since it deal with backups which I consider a VERY important thing to have an unnoticed backup failure needs to be avoided under any circumstances. For technicians like me to be called in if a user looses a config file is bothersome because it might be my mother-in-law or many other people whom I want or don't want to see too often.
If a backup is started or scheduled and it can't find the destination drive it should come up with a clear big red flashing warning and give the user a precise information what to do. And in case that doesn't happen not to loose the config file. A backup that is saved by default on the same harddrive is not a backup if that harddrive crashes.
I don't feel compfortable to configure Ubuntu machines with nssbackup when I know that the config file can be lost. External drives as Igor points outs rightly is the prefered backup medium for many Desktop users and all Notebook and laptop users. I believe that that is reason enough to take this issue further in the programming and find a solution.