Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development ... or starting over

2010-04-06 Thread Daniel Miller
I wasn't really prepared to make this announcement so soon, but now seems like a good time to let the community know. I've been working on a new implementation of rdiff-backup since about a month ago when [snip] I'm not a coder... [snip] Now, on top of that I'd like to have all the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Development Status Git/SVN

2010-04-06 Thread Randy Syring
Josh, FWIW, I have been very impressed with Git and have found this resources extremely helpful: http://progit.org/book/ That being said, Windows support is second-class (or worse) and its probably my ownly concern about git. I have only used mercurial a few times, but don't have a problem

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development ... or starting over

2010-04-06 Thread Nicolas Jungers
On 04/06/2010 02:34 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: I wasn't really prepared to make this announcement so soon, but now seems like a good time to let the community know. I've been working on a new implementation of rdiff-backup since about a month ago when [snip] I'm not a coder... [snip] Now, on

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development ... or starting over

2010-04-06 Thread Randy Syring
Daniel Miller wrote: I wasn't really prepared to make this announcement so soon, but now seems like a good time to let the community know. I've been working on a new implementation of rdiff-backup since about a month ago when I dug into the current codebase and discovered its disappointing

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development

2010-04-06 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi Josh, Development on rdiff-backup has stagnated for the last while. I think that this is attributable to several reasons: * Andrew has dropped of the face of the earth, (he's working on graduate studies, IIRC) and I've been busy with other things. Since we're the two core maintainers,

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development

2010-04-06 Thread Josh Nisly
Daniel Miller wrote: Hi Josh, Development on rdiff-backup has stagnated for the last while. I think that this is attributable to several reasons: * Andrew has dropped of the face of the earth, (he's working on graduate studies, IIRC) and I've been busy with other things. Since we're the two

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development

2010-04-06 Thread Scott Carpenter
Josh Nisly spake thusly on 04/06/2010 09:27 AM: I'm a little torn - I don't want to discourage you from starting from scratch at all, but I think that the current codebase has lots of value in it that make it worth salvaging. I can understand where you're coming from to start a new version,

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] native VSS (Shadow Copy) support

2010-04-06 Thread Randy Syring
Josh Nisly wrote: Two things: 1) The rdiff-backup project likely won't accept patches for features that are platform specific. There are exceptions for OS-specific filesystem metadata, but VSS doesn't fall into that category. Now that there is consideration of restarting development, any

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development

2010-04-06 Thread Daniel Miller
I'm looking forwarding to hearing your responses. Are you sure about that? :) Here's my personal perspective. Our current users get grumpy when we change the wire protocol across major versions - I suspect that losing backwards compatibility at the repository level would be a deal-killer

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] native VSS (Shadow Copy) support

2010-04-06 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Randy Syring rsyr...@inteli-com.com wrote: Josh Nisly wrote: Two things: 1) The rdiff-backup project likely won't accept patches for features that are platform specific. There are exceptions for OS-specific filesystem metadata, but VSS doesn't fall into that

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development

2010-04-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:59:55AM -0400, Daniel Miller wrote: Hmm, ok, I'll rename it. It will likely be a completely new project. I'd like to explore deduplication anyway, which requires an even bigger divergence from the rdiff-backup design (it will likely eliminate the current mirror in

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development

2010-04-06 Thread Nicolas Jungers
On 04/06/2010 05:59 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: Hmm, ok, I'll rename it. It will likely be a completely new project. I'd like to explore deduplication anyway, which requires an even bigger divergence from the rdiff-backup design (it will likely eliminate the current mirror in favor of a

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development

2010-04-06 Thread Nicolas Jungers
On 04/06/2010 05:59 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: [snip] As it is, I believe the current repository design is flawed with a performance issue that gets worse with bigger backup sets and long-term use. I don't know if that can be fixed without changing the [snip] Without prejudging, is it

[Fwd: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development]

2010-04-06 Thread Josh Nisly
Oops, meant to include the list. ---BeginMessage--- Daniel Miller wrote: I'm looking forwarding to hearing your responses. Are you sure about that? :) Absolutely! I really would be excited about another project that uses some of the same algorithms. As I said, more competition is

Re: [Fwd: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development]

2010-04-06 Thread Nicolas Jungers
On 04/06/2010 06:35 PM, Josh Nisly wrote: The more I think about it, the more I think starting another project isn't an all bad solution - I think we may have increasingly divergent goals. For myself, having a current mirror is well worth the cost in disk space; it means that it's much easier to

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] native VSS (Shadow Copy) support

2010-04-06 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 06/04/2010 17:03, Greg Freemyer wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Randy Syringrsyr...@inteli-com.com wrote: Josh Nisly wrote: Two things: 1) The rdiff-backup project likely won't accept patches for features that are platform specific. There are exceptions for OS-specific

Re: [Fwd: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development]

2010-04-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi rdiff-backup user, part time programmer. I would love to see some more work on rdiff-backup, love to get some bugs fixed and see some performance increase, not going to comment on rewrite or fix the current code base - I haven't really looked at the code. But I would say on encryption and de

Re: [Fwd: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development]

2010-04-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:32:04AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: But I would say on encryption and de duplication - why not leave that to the filesystem - stay focused on what rdiff-backup does best - differential backups, you can get de duplication, compression and encryption file systems why