backup system configuration
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| OneConf |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | |
| Ubuntu One Client |
Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is more of a feature request.
As Ubuntu One is aimed at Ubuntu users. It would be nice to have a one click backup facility to backup key system configuration files like xorg.conf, apt-get sources.lst, Firefox bookmarks etc. on a Ubuntu One special folder.
This would be a nice feature when people are about to do a dist-upgrade. In case of issues, they can use UbuntuOne to retrieve their backed up configuration files.
Elliot Murphy (statik) wrote : | #1 |
Changed in ubuntuone-client: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: desktop+ |
Sebastian Rühl (sebastian-ruehl) wrote : | #2 |
a dpkg -l package list would be also a good thing to bring the system back into a state. Also the whole . config dirs in the home directory. All this uses few space and is very helpful.
So Push ;)
Sebastian Rühl (sebastian-ruehl) wrote : | #3 |
Just a small update... what seems to be a good solution is to associate the machine with the configuration:
So every machine has its selections stored in the hidden Ubuntu directory .ubuntuone. There is a folder selections which contains the selections for a given machine (dpkg --get-selections >> .ubuntuone/
So after a fresh installation and a sign in I could select (additionally) the machine and then the packages will be installed.
Sebastian Rühl (sebastian-ruehl) wrote : | #4 |
btw. there is a concept on:
https:/
papukaija (papukaija) wrote : | #5 |
Shouldn't this bug be closed? Oneconf will be installed by default in Natty and it provides installed package syncing ( the package description doesn't mention application's settings syncing, so I guess it's for later Ubuntu releases).
tags: | removed: backup feature |
Didier Roche (didrocks) wrote : | #6 |
This will indeed come later, meanwhile, you have deja-dup I guess by default for oneiric :)
Changed in oneconf: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
This is a great feature request! I would like to do something like this in Karmic+1.