[rdiff-backup-users] Re: rdiff-backup being maintained?

[Wiebe Cazemier]

<posted & mailed>

On Thursday 26 October 2006 07:15, Yeroc wrote:

> 
> Greetings...
> 
> I've been considering using rdiff-backup to backup my Mac OSX laptop but
> after poking around the website for a bit and checking the mailing list for
> possible Mac-related issues I'm becoming rather concerned that rdiff-backup
> is no longer being actively maintained by anyone.  As near as I can tell,
> nothing has been committed to CVS since January 2006 in spite of a number of
> patches being posted to this list that fix bugs in the current versions.
> I'm particularly interested in a couple of patches resolving issues with Mac
> OSX support posted by Andrew Ferguson.
> 
> I also note that someone else raised a similar issue back in April
> (http://www.nabble.com/Ben-still-present-tf1422060.html#a3833445) but no
> response was elicited.
> 
> Can any of the current maintainer(s) allay my concerns or has rdiff-backup
> been abandoned?
> 
> Thanks,
> Corey

A bit of an old reply, but I coincidently noticed this message on the
rdiff-backup mailing list. I sent a mail to Ben Escoto once about it. This is
the reply I got (on may 9th):

> Hi, you're right, I haven't done anything with rdiff-backup for
> several months.  I've done this several times before, where for
> various reasons I didn't work on rdiff-backup for months.  This time,
> my absence corresponds to a move and a new job.
> 
> It's likely that I'll work on rdiff-backup again eventually, but in
> the meantime I may not give it much attention.  (I recently checked in
> on duplicity, which I have been neglecting for even longer.)
> 
> Regards,
> -- Ben Escoto