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

Looks really nice.
My implementation has a trade-off with wxpython, that it's cross platform
and native looking. But native looks kinda boring today. Unlike Minarca.

You might want to take a look at BackupFriendPi, because it lets you just
flash and boot a raspberrypi/server with rdiffweb, ready to use,
automatically mounts external drives and automatically updates using docker.
I personally got stuck setting up the server because of the specific
environment.

I am not sure how to fully join forces yet, but I think it could make
rdiffweb more accessible to people.

BTW two feature requests I got were encryption and no history, only
rsync-like behavior.
I wonder if building something that handles multiple backends might be a
more general solution (as much as I like rdiff-backup).

Guy


On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 04:16 Patrik Dufresne <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks Guy for reaching out. Your feedback and your contribution to
> Rdiffweb are welcome. Take note that Minarca
> <https://gitlab.com/ikus-soft/minarca> is providing an overlapping set of
> the features you have implemented in BackupFriend. It handles SSH Keys
> transparently, it registers them on the fly using RestAPI, it uses a
> gateway user to manage the SSH authentication, for additional security it
> uses chroot jail to isolate rdiff-backup execution.
>
> The only major flaw as of today is the use of JAVA on the desktop
> application :D
>
> I'm already working on a desktop application in pure Python that will
> integrate all the existing features of the Java version. The progress is
> far advanced as I'm working on the packaging part of Windows, Mac OSX and
> Linux.
>
> So far it looks like this. MAC OS X
> [image: image.png]
>
> Windows 10
> [image: image.png]
>
> Linux
> [image: image.png]
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 3:10 PM Guy Sheffer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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 an option, and I will post in rdiffweb and see if it
> > ikus060
> > is interested. It will indeed mean less resources for me.
> > I actually posted about it here in rdiffweb group:
> > https://groups.google.com/g/rdiffweb/c/hqjilPP5sLQ
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Guy
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 20:55 EricZolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > > against joining forces.
> >
> >
> > > Thanks, Eric
> > >
> > > On July 19, 2021 4:24:34 PM UTC, Guy Sheffer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > >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 and sources:
> > > >https://guysoft.wordpress.com/backupfriend
> > > >
> > > >Would appreciate your input, PRs and feedback :)
> > > >
> > > >Guy Sheffer
> > >
> >
>
>
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