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[BackupPC-devel] BackupPCd
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1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
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Hi,

yes, I'm replying to a message that's almost a year old - sorry.
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1. What is the use case for a specialized/proprietary BackupPC client
when BackupPC natively supports so many different transfer methods
now?
I want to add a point I find *very* interesting: a specialized client can be
made to send the potential pool file (base) name for a file it wishes to
transfer. This way, files already in the pool would not need to be transfered
over the wire, even if the file does not exist or has a different name in the
reference backup (or there is no reference backup). Presuming we're not on
an architecture with a broken MD5 library, of course ;-).
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I am willing to let the project remain in its current unmaintained state
forever but I wanted to give anyone with an interest an opportunity to
come forward and take over the project including all the version control
history (which was previously in an internal Subversion repository) as
well as updated links as appropriate.
I've wanted to *take a look* at BackupPCd for years now, and still haven't
gotten around to doing so. I guess that doesn't really qualify me for *taking
it over* :-). But I will keep the offer in mind. Thank you.

Regards,
Holger

P.S.: As far as I can tell, BackupPC 3.2.0 removed support for BackupPCd.
Until then it was mentioned in the config file, though not documented
as an allowed XferMethod value ...
This might give a further hint at the number of people currently using
it.

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