I was looking for a KDE app that does just this — runs a backup when USB HDD is plugged in. I don’t mind writing my backup script by hand, but I don’t know how to do “Make a backup” option in device notifier.

thanks!

Currently you have a few options, but you aren’t speaking of the configuration. From your screenshots I see you have filter options (which I really like), so it seems you have the ability to control what is backed up and what not? I’d like to backup some folders, but not my complete home directory. I’d even like to back up just some folders inside my homedir, not all of them. Are these possibilities for the future?
Because selecting your own folders can become really advanced when thinking of the nepomuksearch:/ KIO slave. You could e.g. tag some folders and files with “backup”. Kaveau makes a back up from the folder nepomuksearch://backup and you have a very excellent backup utility: simple but able to do advanced things where backup software is nowadays not able to do such things.

Another one: an every our backup is way too much for me. Daily or something is (for me) a lot better. So this would be a really good configuration option as well I think. KDE users are used to have a lot of configuration options, but still having good default options and a clean interface to configure them.
In my case, I have a laptop which I want to backup on a daily base when I come home. My usecase scenario is I enter my home, start my laptop and it automatically mounts a server’s folder because I’m in my home network. This automounting is detected through Linux and such way Kaveau can do it’s backup (just like you plugin your usb hdd).

Configuring Kaveau with above mentioned options is a thing many of us would like to see, but is “hidden” behind a dialog you do not need to use. But I have said enough to let you think about it I assume. Keep up the good work!

Also I would have preferred to contribute to an existing project instead of creating another backup program. Unfortunately there’s no KDE-focused program approaching the backup problem with a minimalistic philosophy. I don’t think the maintainer of one of these projects would like to merge patches removing options/features

KDE4 introduces some new cool technologies. I think it would be counter-productive to ignore them just for having a cross-platform solution (like this project is doing).

That’s why I decided to start something new.

I don’t know if I’ll add a notification showing “make a backup now” when the disk is plugged. When the disk is plugged I check the last time backup and I perform a new one if needed.