On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 03:49:45PM +0100, Reto Schuettel wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:25:15AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > bontmia creates incremental snapshots of a list of given directories > > > over the network by using rsync over ssh and hard links. Every snapshot > > > looks for the user like a complete copy of all the files, but as a result > > > of using hard links every unchanged copy of a file is stored only once on > > > the hard disk. > > > > What advantages does this package have over, say, dirvish or backuppc? > > I never used dirvish nor backuppc, so I can't really say what the > difference are. But it seems like bontmia is simpler than both > (especially backuppc). Simpler in terms of features available, or simpler in terms of configuration for the same level of features? > I can't really say if that's a reason for creating a new package, I > personally would like it, because it's already running on several of my > machines, but beside of that, it wouldn't be a big problem for me to close > my ITP. > > What do you think? It's a tricky one. I'm a firm believer in not duplicating effort, and with the existence of at least two other packages which appear to do a similar job, I'm just worried that we'll end up with a lot of packages doing the same thing, which does nothing except dissipate effort and fragment the user base of all of the alternatives. However, at the end of the day, you're the one expending the effort, so if you think it's worthwhile, I've got no reason to stop you. - Matt
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