[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Restarting development ... or starting over

2011-04-02 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi Micah, I have continued work on the project, but development has been slow due to lack of time and motivation. I have renamed the project and at this point it only takes inspiration from rdiff-backup. The codebase has been written from scratch. Really the only thing in common between the

[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Restarting development ... or starting over

2011-03-24 Thread Micah Anderson
Hi, Daniel Miller dan...@keystonewood.com writes: I wasn't really prepared to make this announcement so soon, but now seems like a good time to let the community know. I've been working on a new implementation of rdiff-backup since about a month ago when I dug into the current codebase and

[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Restarting development

2010-04-10 Thread Oliver Mattos
(it will likely eliminate the current mirror in favor of a block-level database, but it solves a host of other cross-platform issues so its appealing to me). One of the major nice things about rdiff-backup at the moment is the ability to restore the latest version of the repository with a

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Restarting development

2010-04-10 Thread Scott Carpenter
Oliver Mattos spake thusly on 04/10/2010 04:32 PM: One of the major nice things about rdiff-backup at the moment is the ability to restore the latest version of the repository with a simple file copy. It also has a nice benefit that users can be given read-only access the the backup if

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Restarting development

2010-04-10 Thread Oliver Mattos
I'm not sure it's a voting thing, but if it is, I support a new codebase since I suspect with the insight of the existing codebase a re-write wouldn't actually take anywhere near as long as the initial development, and would give the project a new beginning and the opportunity to add features that