Remind user to setup and execute backups

[spotlesscoder]

Problem

Most average users I know like for example parents and grandparents of my friends at some point lose some or all of their data because they don’t have an offline backup

Proposal

Display a notification every now and then when there is no proper backup software configured for the currently logged in user.

Ubuntu already does this. They use deja-dup as backup software if I remember correctly. The same software should also work nicely with wirh elementaryos abd should be installed with elementary by default

Prior Art (Optional)

No response

[danirabbit]

I’m going to transfer this to settings-daemon since there’s no background process for Files.

I’m not really sure about sending notifications about not having configured a backup tool. I can see sending notifications if a configured backup wasn’t completed or hasn’t been done in a while etc. but I would assume that the backup software itself should cover that case?

[spotlesscoder]

From a technical perspective, yes.

But that requires a backup software to be installed.