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I was (and still am) honestly baffled that Canonical never went about building and marketing Ubuntu One as a home directory backup service. Maybe automatically

I was (and still am) honestly baffled that Canonical never went about building and marketing Ubuntu One as a home directory backup service. Maybe automatically encrypt and backup all text files in the home directory by default, and for free. Restore encrypted backup from Ubuntu One every time a user does a reinstall or upgrade. Charge users if they want to throw in media files or binaries.

voyou 13y ago
The standard Ubuntu install includes Deja Dup, which does encrypted backups to Ubuntu One. I don't remember ever seeing much marketing of this feature from Canonical, though.
- izacus 13y ago
  Deja-Dup however was rather buggy... for my machines it corrupted all backups I had and I had to restore data from duplicitys broken indexes for at least two more people. A rather bad track record for software that is there to prevent you from losing data :/
  - berdario 13y ago
    Agree, I got corrupted backup data as well, and DejaDup failed to restore a single file from a directory (but the file was actually backedp up correctly, so I managed to recover it by restoring the WHOLE disk backup on another volume and fetching it from there) On top of that, also the backup process itself was unbearably slow... I really wanted a backup tool built upon inotify, so now I'm using Crashplan (it's not open source, but at least it works on linux)
  - nisa 13y ago
    It's unfortunately not an exception rather than yet another indication that they need to spend some energy on polishing things and fixing bugs. At least critical one... Ubuntu is really terrible at that.