Is there someone that I can pay to add this feature if so contact me off
list. I work for a hosting company and we are looking to branch out in what
we offer.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:17 PM, <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote:
> Zach Underwood wrote at about 18:27:29 -0500 on Thursday, February 28,
> 2013:
> > I have been using backuppc now for 3 weeks. I love the way it backups
> Linux
> > severs. I also like how easy it installs. But the windows backup just
> > sucks. Backuppc needs a real windows backup client. The windows client
> > should be the one that starts the backup. By doing this you can backup
> over
> > the internet. I wish I was a programmer so that I could help but I am
> just
> > a sysadmin.
>
> Well, saying something 'sucks' and 'wishing' are not the way to get
> open source developed... if you want something, you should seek to
> contribute whether with your own sweat labor or alternatively paying
> someone else to implement what you wish...
>
> I have written several thousand lines of code for BackupPC utilities
> and I am neither a programmer nor a sysadmin. I think I had one total
> computer programming course in my whole life and that was a summer
> school course 30 years ago... the point is if you want something, then
> dig in and contribute...
>
> In particular, I wanted to be able to back up all my windows machines
> using rsyncd with shadow mounts plus a full acl backup and I wanted
> all this to happen automatically. So, I wrote a 1000 line bash script
> (shadowmountrsync) and I learned a heck of a lot of bash programming
> nuggets along the way. It does what I need it to do. Michael Stowe did
> a similar thing to meet his needs -- perhaps he is a 'programmer',
> perhaps he isn't. If both of these 'suck', then since the scripts are
> GPL, you are free to improve upon them or start yourself from scratch.
>
> BTW, I will be releasing an updated version of shadowmountrsync soon
> which adds a few nice tweaks and fixes...
>
>
>
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