BackupFriend - new desktop application that uses rdiff-backup, all open source

2021-07-19 Thread Guy Sheffer
Happy to release my new self-hosted backup solution that lets you backup to your with history from anywhere! All open source. It uses rdiff-backup and rdiffweb fork, which you can sync with using a desktop application I wrote with wxPython, runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Guide and link to builds

Re: BackupFriend - new desktop application that uses rdiff-backup, all open source

2021-07-19 Thread Guy Sheffer
Hey Eric, Thanks, I was also hoping this would make more people make use of rdiff-backup. I forked really just to maintain a set of patches that keep the ssh public keys in a file, allowing sshd hosted in docker to use them. I can still pull from upstream and intend to do so. Merging back up is

Re: BackupFriend - new desktop application that uses rdiff-backup, all open source

2021-07-19 Thread EricZolf
Hi Guy, welcome on board, it's good to see the ecosystem of rdiff-backup grow. I'm just curious why you created a fork of rdiffweb? You write yourself that you're lacking resources, and the author of rdiffweb, ikus060 aka Patrik, is active on this mailing list, so that nothing should speak