Hi, I've been a long time user of backuppc (couple of years at least), and in general it works really well and I'm mostly happy with the current status. However, since I upgraded to the 4.0.0alpha3 last year, I've had a number of minor issues (some more serious than others, like failing to backup unchanged files, or saying the backup has failed even though it succeeded). So far, I've not lost data due to any issue, and that is a plus, but I'm very concerned that eventually, one of these problems will cause actual data loss (as in, backup failed, something else caused data loss like failed RAID array, and then can't recover from backup).
I'd like to know if there is any current person or organisation doing development work on BackupPC, and/or interested in doing that? I'm considering to fork the project, and try to debug/fix the remaining issues in BPC 4, but at the same time, I'm very busy, and am not really a "proper" coder, so working on such a large project will be difficult. With the right group of developers, this could work (as in, a small work load for each person, but at least better maintenance/development efforts). My concerns are: 1) Without ongoing development/maintenance, new versions of OS or perl or whatever will cause breakages, while manual/minor patches or config changes might solve these, over time it will become more of a nightmare. 2) The point of using a "standard" open source product is that we all get the advantage of experience (ie, more users finding problems), and improvements/patches. I could have built (probably never as good as the current BPC) my own solution. So, are you interested in developing/contributing? What is the current status/plans around BPC? Do you have any patches that are not applied to either v3 or v4 releases? Thoughts/discussions? PS, BPC is an excellent product, and I greatly appreciate all the time and effort that has been invested into it, I would ideally like to see it continue under the leadership of Craig, he has done an amazing development job so far. I really really do not want to see it basically waste away, with people moving to other products simply because it is unmaintained, and has a few small problems (which is where I currently stand, either I move to another product, or I start working harder on the current one). Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
