Bug#294990: ITP: bontmia -- backup over network to multiple incremental archives
Hi Matthew On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:40:36AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Reto Schuettel wrote: I made a mistake, I asked the author, created a package and AFTER that I filed an ITP. Oooh. Did you check wnpp before you started, in case someone else was working on the package? Of course :). But I didn't expect a 'hey, we already have that'-problem :). Next time... Hmm... I'll try to find a sponsor, with a pointer to this discussion here. The sponsor should decide if it's worth to upload the package. Do you agree with this procedure? I think that's a good idea. A potential sponsor will hopefully look at bontmia with reference to the other alternatives available, and make a judgment call on whether it's sufficiently different. Okay! Thanks for your advices! Regards Reto Schüttel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#294990: ITP: bontmia -- backup over network to multiple incremental archives
Hi Matthew On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:25:15AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: bontmia creates incremental snapshots of a list of given directories over the network by using rsync over ssh and hard links. Every snapshot looks for the user like a complete copy of all the files, but as a result of using hard links every unchanged copy of a file is stored only once on the hard disk. What advantages does this package have over, say, dirvish or backuppc? I never used dirvish nor backuppc, so I can't really say what the difference are. But it seems like bontmia is simpler than both (especially backuppc). I can't really say if that's a reason for creating a new package, I personally would like it, because it's already running on several of my machines, but beside of that, it wouldn't be a big problem for me to close my ITP. What do you think? Regards, Reto Schüttel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#294990: ITP: bontmia -- backup over network to multiple incremental archives
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 03:49:45PM +0100, Reto Schuettel wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:25:15AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: bontmia creates incremental snapshots of a list of given directories over the network by using rsync over ssh and hard links. Every snapshot looks for the user like a complete copy of all the files, but as a result of using hard links every unchanged copy of a file is stored only once on the hard disk. What advantages does this package have over, say, dirvish or backuppc? I never used dirvish nor backuppc, so I can't really say what the difference are. But it seems like bontmia is simpler than both (especially backuppc). Simpler in terms of features available, or simpler in terms of configuration for the same level of features? I can't really say if that's a reason for creating a new package, I personally would like it, because it's already running on several of my machines, but beside of that, it wouldn't be a big problem for me to close my ITP. What do you think? It's a tricky one. I'm a firm believer in not duplicating effort, and with the existence of at least two other packages which appear to do a similar job, I'm just worried that we'll end up with a lot of packages doing the same thing, which does nothing except dissipate effort and fragment the user base of all of the alternatives. However, at the end of the day, you're the one expending the effort, so if you think it's worthwhile, I've got no reason to stop you. - Matt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#294990: ITP: bontmia -- backup over network to multiple incremental archives
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Reto Schuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: bontmia Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : John Enok Vollestad [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://folk.uio.no/johnen/bontmia/ * License : GPL Description : backup over network to multiple incremental archives bontmia creates incremental snapshots of a list of given directories over the network by using rsync over ssh and hard links. Every snapshot looks for the user like a complete copy of all the files, but as a result of using hard links every unchanged copy of a file is stored only once on the hard disk. The user can specify how old backups should be stored/kept. For example it's possible to keep the daily snapshots of the last 14 days, but also keep one snapshot per month of the last 12 months. The used network bandwidth can also be limited to avoid affecting production systems. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#294990: ITP: bontmia -- backup over network to multiple incremental archives
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:07:10PM +0100, Reto Schuettel wrote: Description : backup over network to multiple incremental archives bontmia creates incremental snapshots of a list of given directories over the network by using rsync over ssh and hard links. Every snapshot looks for the user like a complete copy of all the files, but as a result of using hard links every unchanged copy of a file is stored only once on the hard disk. What advantages does this package have over, say, dirvish or backuppc? - Matt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
