[Ubuntu PA] Possible New NTR Project

[Brian Stempin]

>
> I do this 2-3 times a week.  I know where the cruft lives and I know how
> important it is for people not to lose their stuff.  Would you want to
> be instructed to destroy your stuff?


No, I wouldn't, nor was I advocating this.

I think the idea of backing up the user's data and restoring it for them
(cruft-free) is pretty neat.  I don't think that what Jim or Kevin described
can do this for 100% of users.  It does not have the space or the
cruft-avoidance ability.  The broken links that something like this would
produce from missing programs, etc etc is a ton of cruft and confusion for
end-users.  Also, there has been no mention of what would happen if the user
has more data than the aux drive can handle.

I just think that it would be simpler to have the user back their data up.
Perhaps we can somehow aid in this (ie, perhaps aiding the user in running
an special NT backup script that stores the backup on the aux drive), but
automating it with *0* user intervention is probably not a good idea.
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