Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day
> > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use
> > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package
> > operates?
>
> Or storebackup?
>
> (Actually, storebackup's one-line description doesn't really hint at
> this functionality. But I'm using it to create daily snapshots of remote
> servers over smbfs and nfs, using hard links to conserve space. It
> offers sliding window; you can tell it to keep a month of backups, and
> then weekly after that for 6 months, then monthly etc.)
>
> Written in Perl, fwiw (not much I hope).
This one does indeed seem to fill the niche for which I had turned to
glastree.
I must admit that I would have benefited from a more thorough Debian
reference on available backup alternatives. Not that I have the
knowledge to make one myself, but hey.
With so many other alternatives, should I simply close my ITP bug, or
should I proceed with providing the package?
Charles
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