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December 20, 2023, 10:25am
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Restic was actually one of the apps that triggered the creation of the system-backup interface so backup applications do not need classic anymore, this in turn was the reason this type of apps was removed from the “supported” list on:
See:
Hello! I’m the maintainer of Déjà Dup, a general purpose GNOME backup tool.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup
It would ideally have read/write access to any file on the system for backing up / restoring purposes. So classic seems like a good fit to me.
The :system-files and :personal-files interfaces don’t seem suited for this usage pattern (like, I can’t just specify :system-files of ‘/’ and get access to everything
Which resulted in:
Currently, the deja-dup snap is allowed classic confinement. I’m working to change to that to strict confinement.
Requested autoconnections: home, removable-media, system-backup
I believe these will let me offer a suitable user experience (continued support for read & write for user data, but dropping to read-only for system and user configuration – and still write backups to removable storage).
Please don’t remove classic confinement yet as an option. I still need to roll out the strictly co…
