Summary
The UbuntuHomeBackup aims to provide an interface to easily create backups of your files in any medium. It backup your settings, home directory or system files by a simple step-by-step interface that guide you into the process.
Rational
Ubuntu Linux is growing, and people would be using it for everyday use. However, file loss and critical data corruption is likely to happen accidentally or by hardware or software faults. Mediums of data storage keeps getting cheaper, and much easier to access, but currently, it is not yet used by backup tools.
Scope
The backup tool will be able to use CD-R/RW Recordable Disc, USB Disk Drive, E-Mail, FTP Network Servers, Apple iPod, and Local Directory as a backup medium. Backups of the user's home directory files, settings, or system files like /home, /etc, and /var would be available in the interface.
Design
Invocation and Overall Design
The software will be linked right into "System > Administration > Backup" menu. and will have a stock harddisk icon. A selection of what files would be available for backup, and what storage medium would be used.
Screenshots
Selection of files to be backup
Selection of storage mediums
E-mail storage medium
FTP storage medium
Administrator backup
Backup label name
Backup compression method
Final Screen
GUI file extraction
This would be available along with the backup files if disk medium is used as a backup storage. The user simply double click the application to easily extract the files to the directory.
Code
The code is written in GTK+, C, sh and perl as a scripting backend.
Source Package
Version 0.1 "No one accepts my 5 cents and 10 cents anymore."
This is the first release of the software, but it's quite stable, FTP and GUI file extraction is still WIP. I really love feedbacks! 
Installation
It does not require other dependencies other than build-essentials and GTK+ 2.0 Libraries. It can be installed by standard configure, make & make install
However, if it doesn't work, run ./autogen --prefix=/usr
6 comments:
Does the CD-R/RW option also support DVD-R/RW backup?
any plans to support Amazon S3 storage?
Why isn't there a GUI that provides a step-by-step wizard that puts everything back after backing up? That would be a good follow up to this. After you back up, and you want to restore a back up, you go to the GUI and put everything back automatically where you originally backed up from.
I was unable to install this tool on Ubuntu Dapper with the build essential package. it seems that while ubuntu uses automake 1.4 you have chosen to use automake 1.9 which is far above the version available to normal users.
Please correct your installation so that it does not use automake which is known as a horrible tool to install things with. replace with either a make file a deb or even a bash script (since it's for ubuntu only the point of automake is lost on me)
it would be great if you could choose to back up only the files that has been change since the last backup. so you dont upload the whole directories over and over again
Is there a way to copy files and only unwritten files over instead of copying everything over?
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