Re: BackupPC v3 and v4 Development

Alexander Moisseev <[email protected]> Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:52:15 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07.01.16 2:25, Adam Goryachev wrote:
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> So, are you interested in developing/contributing?
People on the list now and then are asking about repository where they could contribute. I believe a few people will be involved if such a repository will be created and maintained.

I am maintaining sysutils/backuppc and sysutils/backuppc-devel FreeBSD ports. At some point I realized I need a repository just to keep tracking patches between Craig's timeouts (your concern #1). Of course I am rather interested in contributing to a community repository (your concern #2).

I am not a "proper" coder and busy too. I'd like to contributing on occasional basis.

Actually, I am using v3 and not considering move to v4 while it is unmaintained. I think with v3 it will be easier to fix on my own potential breakages related to external changes (OS, Perl, ...).
Also, as far as I know policies of some OS prohibit including nonstable (alpha, beta) software in distribution. So a lot of users will be stick to v3 for a long time.

> What is the current status/plans around BPC?
Unmaintained/abandoned - I am really sorry, but no any feedback from developer more than a year.

> Do you have any patches that are not applied to either v3 or v4 releases?

So, some patches are there:

https://github.com/moisseev/BackupPC


This test script illustrates potential unexpected loss of a few backups after modifying BackupPC settings:

https://gist.github.com/moisseev/d5a8a499a7b69b1f0428

--
Alexander


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