Here is a conundrum that I have recently run into, posed as a question:when you run a Gnome application remotely through ssh-forwarded X , where does it get its Gnome configurationsettings from?

In the old days of X resources , this sort of question hada simple answer; custom settings were attached to the screen itself(they got stuffed into an X property) and thus were accessible to all Xprograms, regardless of where they were running. In the new ultra-modernworld of GConf and friends

It's now a bit over a year since we first deployed our disk-basedbackup system (although I only wrote it up in May,after we built the second machine). This makes it a good moment to lookback and talk about how things are going, especially since someone Iknow asked me just this question recently.

On the whole the answer is that things are going well and quietly; withone exception, there haven't really been any surprises or gotchas. Theone exception is that