A few years ago, I used elementary OS for my workstation at work. As part of an upgrade, I ran their backup program to make a backup to a removable disk. It went through the full backup process. Apparently, there was a 'bug' in the software where if you click on it, and then hit select in the folder dialog, instead of double click the destination, (it might have been the other way around, it was a few years ago). the backup would essentially write an empty file. How much fun it is to rebuild all your data from other sources!
I submitted a bug report and essentially got a DM from someeone that it was still on their todo list, and had been that way for a while. That was the last time I used them.
I haven't used a Linux desktop in quite a while, but Crunchbang was pretty great. No desktop (as far as I remember), right-click menu as the one source find everything, a minimalist taskbar, and a better terminal than what shipped with any Debian distro. It was a sad day when the author abandoned it, although it's really not hard to just download Debian and replace the DE with Openbox and the other things that came with Crunchbang.
BunsenLabs (very conservative, basically just updated CB).
CrunchBang++ (modernised a little, with some new features and shiny).
AIUI:
The BunsenLabs community are aggrieved because they respected Corenomial's rights over it and so didn't use the original name.
The CB++ people are bolder: they asked him, got permission, and were a bit more radical.
TBH I wish they would either settle their differences and re-unify, or the BunsenLabs folks be a little more radical and (for instance) move to Devuan instead.
Do you remember which program that was? Afaik elementary does not have any official backup application or function so I wouldn't put the blame on them here.
I submitted a bug report and essentially got a DM from someeone that it was still on their todo list, and had been that way for a while. That was the last time I used them.
For easy to use, I really miss CrunchBang Linux.