G.W. Haywood wrote at about 19:31:34 +0100 on Tuesday, September 17, 2024: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Daniel Berteaud wrote: > > Anyway, BackupPC seems to become abandonware, so I'll probably > > migrate to restic sooner rather than later. > > It's definitely a concern with a lot of Perl projects thesedays, but > if BackupPC looked like being abandoned I'd be happy to take it on as > the maintainer myself because I've used it so extensively for so long. > I'd be surprised if others on this list wouldn't also step up. >
I have been using BackupPC for 20 years or so... and I find it *awesome* and incredibly flexible, stable & reliable. So long as I can put ssh & rsyn on a device, I can back it up. This applies to any PC (Linux, Windows, Mac), RPi and other single board computers, Android phones & tablets, etc. *No* custom client required! I'm not sure there is a single program out there that can do all so easily. Plus the de-duplication is awesome. And being written in Perl (including the configs) means that I have been able to do some "funky" stuff in my configurations to allow snapshotting before backup for both BTRFS and Window as well as many other useful tweaks to meet my needs. I find it so stable that one *almost* doesn't need a maintainer... But sadly it seems that programs that are abandoned tend to eventually wilt as things inevitably break with upgrades and as the community dwindles away. Unfortunately, I haven't heard a word from Craig (the creator of BackupPC) in a couple of years so it might make sense to reach out to him to see what his interests and intentions are regarding continuing development or at least maintenance... If not, definitely appreciate your willingness to step up :) _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
