Prompt user if an external drive is plugged in
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Déjà Dup |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This is a break-out issue from bug 320008.
Time Machine throws up a little popup when you insert an external drive that suggests you back up to that drive. It might be nice to implement something similar in Deja Dup.
Obviously, doing so could be annoying, so we'd have to be real careful about how. This would be most useful for situations where we are pre-installed (like Fedora) as a discovery aid. The people most in danger of losing their data are those who don't even know how they can protect it. So this would help them, I think.
We should only present ourselves based on some heuristic. (A) the drive must be large (2x the internal disk?) and/or (B) look at drive info and maybe key off a flag or name that says "I'm a backup drive!". Should look at drives that are marketed as backup drives and see if they have anything in common.
Can we plug into GNOME as a program that gets run when you insert a disk? Or we could just rely on deja-dup-monitor noticing.
And obviously only prompt if the user has never been backed up before. And have a 'never ask me' box.
| Changed in deja-dup: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| description: | updated |
| Jens B. (jens-bavendiek) wrote | #1 |
I can second this wish.
Besides the first time user request, I think it would be great if Deja-Dup can ask if a backup should be made when an external drive known to Deja Dup is plugged in and the no backup was made in the specified time period. Or does it allready do Backups in background when the device is present?