Craig Barratt wrote at about 04:53:04 -0800 on Monday, December 29, 2008: > Tino writes: > > > BTW: Why would that ease support for rsync 3.x? (Just curious.) > > Instead of updating File::RsyncP to rsync 3.x protocol, the idea > would be to use native rsync on both sides of the connection, > and the BackupPC trickery would be hidden behind FUSE.
I like that aspect of it since updates to rsync protocol wouldn't then rely on updates to File::RsyncP > It's just an idea at this point. The rsync protocol isn't > documented; File::RsyncP was developed by carefully reading the > rsync source. It's certainly possible to update File::RsyncP for > rsync 3.x, but the development and testing effort is relatively > high. Just out of curiousity, why isn't it documented? I am surprised that such a ubiquitous building-block piece of open software is not documented. In my (simple) mind, I think of undocumented protocols as being at odds with the open software mentality. > Two benefits of using native rsync on the server side are > that a fuller set of command-line options could be used, and the > robustness would be better. One drawback is the rsync checksum > caching wouldn't work with FUSE. Wouldn't losing rsync checksum caching slow things down? Also, one thing I like about protocol 30 is that I believe it uses md5 checksums and I was hoping that by storing the md5sum checksum as part of the rsync checksum that we would now have a good md5sum checksum that could also easily be used for checking file integrity. > If I follow this path I would still expect to also support existing > BackupPC 3.x XferMethods, including File::RsyncP (up to its existing > protocol 28). So in that sense FUSE wouldn't be mandatory. > > Craig > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
