lelutin

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1. 1.▲
   by lelutin 12y ago

   do you mean something that would automatically update the backup when a file is changed on disk? bup currently doesn't do that. but there's been some talk of using inotify or another such method of knowing exactly which files are
2. 2.▲
   by lelutin 12y ago

   backuppc is a mature technology and can very well be trusted for collecting backups. there are some areas in which bup is trying to innovate in order to change how backups are considered (storage size being one of those)
3. 3.▲
   by lelutin 12y ago

   true. and actually bup can't use git's tooling directly because of the different use cases it's optimized for. git won't make any use of bup's optimizations: midx (combination of multiple .idx files into a handful o
4. 4.▲
   by lelutin 12y ago

   some ppl have already started working on this and there's been activity on the mailing list lately about this topic. however it's a dangerous feature to add in (backup tools should never screw up their storage, and this feature
5. 5.▲
   by lelutin 12y ago

   as is the case with most 100% volunteer-based free software: lack of time and/or ppl to help. There are currently multiple interfaces available to bup, but each one has some quirks. bup's web interface is still very embryonic and
6. 6.▲
   by lelutin 12y ago

   currently bup doesn't implement encryption (since it's a pretty hard feature to get right and we do want to finish coding other key features -- like old backup removal -- before we get to that) some ppl have reported using an encr