renaud cabrol wrote: > "I am a bit out of touch with rsyncrypto." > Does it mean that rsyncrypto will not be developed / supported anymore ? > I think that question deserves an answer.
Rsyncrypto was developed as part of a more complete set of solutions offered by my company, Lingnu Open Source Consulting (http://www.lingnu.com), for a remote backup service. The idea is that the way to make money from free software is by freeing the code (rsyncrypto was wholly developed by Lingnu, and so had no problem, legally, to have been kept proprietary if we so chose), and charging money for the service. Rsyncrypto was the first element of the service to have been developed, and having it working and being used by people is the best proof one needs that the technology is one you can base a commercial service on. In that respect, releasing it as free software has already proved to be a success, as far as we're concerned. However, excellent technology does not a consumer ready product make. To make the service you can buy, a lot of other areas have to be covered. Unfortunately, this has taken us longer than we have hoped, but is the focus of our current development effort. As a result, the core technology is receiving a little less attention than it would normally. At the moment, as far as I'm concerned, rsyncrypto version 1 is in maintenance mode. This means that major bugs (such as the error creating a drive on Windows, and your reported problem too) will be addressed, but more fundamental changes that are planned will have to wait for version 2, which will, unfortunately, also require a file format change. To conclude: Rsyncrypto is, by far, not abandoned. It has been somewhat neglected lately, but this does, by no mean, mean its development is over If paying a monthly price to offload the headache of someone making sure the server side data is ok seems a good tradeoff for you, we may have good news for you in the near future :-) Shachar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Rsyncrypto-devel mailing list Rsyncrypto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsyncrypto-devel
