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

2010-04-07 Thread Nicolas Jungers
On 04/06/2010 10:32 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: But I would say on encryption and de duplication - why not leave that to the filesystem - stay focused on what rdiff-backup does best - differential backups, you can get de duplication, compression and encryption file systems why not leave it to

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

2010-04-07 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Nicolas Jungers nico...@jungers.net wrote: On 04/06/2010 10:32 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: But I would say on encryption and de duplication - why not leave that to the filesystem - stay focused on what rdiff-backup does best - differential backups, you can get

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

2010-04-07 Thread rader
fyi: what is a spare file? typo that should read sparse file? (look it up on wikipedia.) steve -- ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL:

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

2010-04-06 Thread Nicolas Jungers
On 04/06/2010 06:35 PM, Josh Nisly wrote: The more I think about it, the more I think starting another project isn't an all bad solution - I think we may have increasingly divergent goals. For myself, having a current mirror is well worth the cost in disk space; it means that it's much easier to

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

2010-04-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi rdiff-backup user, part time programmer. I would love to see some more work on rdiff-backup, love to get some bugs fixed and see some performance increase, not going to comment on rewrite or fix the current code base - I haven't really looked at the code. But I would say on encryption and de

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

2010-04-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:32:04AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: But I would say on encryption and de duplication - why not leave that to the filesystem - stay focused on what rdiff-backup does best - differential backups, you can get de duplication, compression and encryption file systems why