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[Laco Gubík <lacogubik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Natan Yellin <aantny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Natan Yellin <aantny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntuone-users] Paid subscriber quota changing from 10GB to
> 50GB
> To: Elliot Murphy <elliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ubuntu One discussion <ubuntuone-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Elliot Murphy <elliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hi! Launchpad tells me that there are 716 of you subscribed to this
>> list. Wow...
>>
>> Some news: We're changing the storage quota for Ubuntu One paid
>> subscribers from 10GB to 50GB today. At this point the price isn't
>> changing, and the quota for free subscriptions isn't changing. Hope you
>> enjoy it!
>
> Awesome. I'm actually going to consider upgrading now.
>>
>> In the coming weeks, Joshua Hoover will be posting some tutorials about
>> how to use all the various Ubuntu One enabled features in Ubuntu 9.10
>> (Karmic):
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>> * Tomboy note syncing (go to the syncronization tab and choose
>>  'tomboy web')
>> * Contact syncing (go into evolution and notice the Ubuntu One
>>  address book)
>> * Bookmark syncing (install the 'bindwood' package)
>> * File syncing and sharing (I expect most folks know how to use
>>  this part already)
>> * For developers/hackers, some really cool peer-to-peer CouchDB
>>  LAN syncing (check out the desktopcouch-tools package) and the
>>  templates in Quickly for storing app configuration and data in
>>  CouchDB, along with Gtk widgets for accessing CouchDB and Contacts
>>  records in CouchDB.

After reading all this I think it would be great to have ability to
back up your system into Ubuntu One as well.
I was thinking only to backup all the necessary information which are
required to restore system like:
 - list of all the packages installed
 - list of all third party repositories + keys
 - all the modified files in /etc or maybe whole /etc (in my case it
is only 14MB)
 - all the users settings in ~/ but without cached stuff (e.g. browser
cache, cached thumbnails of images etc)
 - maybe also grub config
 - and anything else I missed which would be required

I would believe that all this could be setup as a profile for some
existing backup tool and when run it would tell user how much space he
has left for his files. It would be also nice if backup tool would
analysed rest of the home folder and told him what he can backup -
e.g. whole Documents, photos, etc. Probably starting to include all
the more important stuff (e.g. in Documents folder, all the .doc .xls
.ods files in home etc) and then try to get rest of the files starting
with the smaller ones. (maybe tool can provide user with some options
like - you can buy more space to backup all the stuff, you can backup
all your docs and photos and you will still have xxMB space left, or
you can backup all your docs and half of the music, etc)

The whole predefined profile should be configurable, so user can
change defaults and the default should be running incremental backups
on regular basis (if user would be running out of the space tool
should again offer user few options of what to exclude and also option
to buy more space)

To make this thing really working, recover option should be available
in boot menu of the live CD (it might be just another icon on desktop
of live system). This recovery should probably do by default least
"damaging" recovery (without formatting home etc)

Generally, idea is to provide few click backup service with ability to
recover whole system, without the need of knowledge of partitions, MBR
etc

What you think guys ?

Laco

>
> Any chance that we'll see any special features for media sharing (photos,
> music, videos, etc.)?
>
>> I hope to see many of you at UDS in November in Dallas, TX to get
>> feedback on Ubuntu One features that made it into Karmic, and to discuss
>> improvements and more features for Lucid!
>
> Unfortunately, I can't attend UDS on a student's budget, but I'd love to see
> Ubuntu One take on a more "Human" feel for Lucid. A few ideas:
> * Give users a personalized home page where they can show people what
> documents they're publicly sharing and let other people request access to
> shares.
> * Let users customize their home page with pictures and videos directly from
> Cheese or F-Spot.
> * Help people generate content which they can share with the Ubuntu
> community. We want users to feel encouraged and excited to take screencasts
> and shoot tutorials. Participating in the Ubuntu community and helping out
> people should be easy- just take a screencast or screenshot and hit the
> conveniently placed "Share with the Ubuntu Community" button.
>
> I guess what I'm trying to say is this: Lets put the "Ubuntu" (as in
> humanity towards others) back into "Ubuntu One." We have an opportunity to
> get people involved in something new and exciting. Lets not waste it.
>
> Natan
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