Upon upgrading my backup server tonight, I found that rsnapshot was
removed from Debian Bullseye. In my opinion, this shouldn't have happened.
I currently use it for backups on my main production server, and even in
my previous Linux admin job, I had implemented it for company systems.
There is no practical alternative to it, it's just a wrapper around
rsync, nothing else works like that as far as I know. I also noticed
that a newer version is in sid, couldn't that have been migrated to
testing and released? I've been using it since 2014 (daily) as far as I
know. I could look for alternatives, but it works too well in my opinion.
To add what I think is a very good point for this, I recently opened a
bug report for a package called statsvn, which didn't even work in both
stable and testing, apparently nobody even verified that it worked
before releasing it in Buster, it would fail with a java version check.
Rsnapshot, a fine working package, was removed, but a perpetually
broken package wasn't. Statsvn hasn't been released upstream for
apparently 11 years. For now, I might see if I can use the sid version
on stable.
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Ryan Thoryk
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