We do have a ticket for this, although there's been no work on it: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1963
Backup is a tricky business, and I agree with the earlier commenter that if every app was responsible for backing up their own data it would be quite a mess. That said, Yorba does want to offer our users the best experience possible. Additionally, there are other reasons for Shotwell to offer a backup solution. For example, if a user wants to migrate their library from one machine to another, a "pure" backup might not be right for them, especially if they want to store their photos in a different path on the destination machine. Although the ticket mentions copying the photos to another drive, it occurs to me that what would probably be more useful is to have a File -> Export Library feature that the burns the entire library onto DVDs. There would be a complementary File -> Import Library feature that reads from those DVDs and copies the files out to disk, respecting configured library and data directory paths, effectively merging the imported photos with the existing library (if there is one). I'm only speculating here because I recently had to do some backup on a personal machine and it was quite painful, especially with media files. The solution outlined above would've made life a bit easier. Does this sound interesting to people? Not that this feature is slated for development any time soon, but it's always good to hear how people are hoping to use Yorba's products. -- Jim On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Atte André Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/29/2011 01:29 PM, Sam Vilain wrote: > > Remember that there are people out there who really only want to back up >> one thing on their computer: their photos and videos, which are >> relatively irreplaceable compared to virtually everything else they >> might have. How are you expecting these users to back up their photo >> collection, with rsnapshot? Great for a SysAdmin but poor for a typical >> user. >> > > I'm sure most people have other things to backup as well. I think there are > good, easy, gui-driven backup solutions available for linux (I didn't look), > so I would "expect" people to use *them* :-) > > You might disagree, but still I think backup is not a job for a "regular" > program, be it a word processor, photo manager, music manager or > what-have-you. > > But if people want it and the dev's wanna spend time on it, no problem... > > > -- > Atte > > http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk > ______________________________**_________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell<http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell> > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
