Re: Recommendation: Backup system
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:55:44PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:32:02AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > Am I being unreasonable? You are certainly more of an expert than I - I
> > suppose you find that it is quality software, and better than
> > rsnapshot, despite basically being dead?
>
> Lack of bug and development activity is certainly a worrying sign of a program
> with problems. But development activity naturally dies off if a program does
> what it is supposed to do, so it's not always a certainty that it is doomed.
> It remains a concern for me, but regardless the tool has worked very well.
>
It looks like rdiff-backup has a new maintainer as of February 2016, sol1. See
<http://rdiff-backup.org/>. There may be some progress forthcoming
after all.
dt
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