<posted & mailed> On Thursday 26 October 2006 07:15, Yeroc wrote:
> > Greetings... > > I've been considering using rdiff-backup to backup my Mac OSX laptop but > after poking around the website for a bit and checking the mailing list for > possible Mac-related issues I'm becoming rather concerned that rdiff-backup > is no longer being actively maintained by anyone. As near as I can tell, > nothing has been committed to CVS since January 2006 in spite of a number of > patches being posted to this list that fix bugs in the current versions. > I'm particularly interested in a couple of patches resolving issues with Mac > OSX support posted by Andrew Ferguson. > > I also note that someone else raised a similar issue back in April > (http://www.nabble.com/Ben-still-present-tf1422060.html#a3833445) but no > response was elicited. > > Can any of the current maintainer(s) allay my concerns or has rdiff-backup > been abandoned? > > Thanks, > Corey A bit of an old reply, but I coincidently noticed this message on the rdiff-backup mailing list. I sent a mail to Ben Escoto once about it. This is the reply I got (on may 9th): > Hi, you're right, I haven't done anything with rdiff-backup for > several months. I've done this several times before, where for > various reasons I didn't work on rdiff-backup for months. This time, > my absence corresponds to a move and a new job. > > It's likely that I'll work on rdiff-backup again eventually, but in > the meantime I may not give it much attention. (I recently checked in > on duplicity, which I have been neglecting for even longer.) > > Regards, > -- Ben Escoto _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
