{"id":875,"date":"2007-08-02T10:54:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/backup-solution-for-mum\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:54:48","slug":"backup-solution-for-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/backup-solution-for-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup solution for mum&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lazyweb,<\/p>\n<p>I really want a GNOME application with a big button that says &#8220;backup&#8221; and proceeds to ask for a series of DVDs, on which it writes out everything on the hard disk (\/ and \/home) which can then (relatively easily) be used to restore the system.<\/p>\n<p>I figure this would work for mum.<\/p>\n<p>The old &#8220;drag and drop onto a blank DVD&#8221; doesn&#8217;t really work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>things get bigger than 1 DVD (e.g. Photos)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Important<\/strong> things like <strong>mail<\/strong> and <strong>bookmarks<\/strong> are <strong>hidden<\/strong> away in special dot folders (begging the question &#8220;so how do I back up my email?&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even a GUI around xfsdump that split the dump file into DVD sized chunks would be great&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lazyweb, I really want a GNOME application with a big button that says &#8220;backup&#8221; and proceeds to ask for a series of DVDs, on which it writes out everything on the hard disk (\/ and \/home) which can then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/backup-solution-for-mum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-e7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":337,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/free-software-wish-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":875,"position":0},"title":"Free Software Wish List","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-01-14","format":false,"excerpt":"This has been gathering in my brain, I figure I should write it all down: X Render everything using Composite and OpenGL basically then we can have output that doesn't suck! 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