Re: backups

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 22:21 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 21:22 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> > to be precise... support for pyxattr and pylibacl are in the
> > development 0.13 branch of rdiff-backup and not in the stable 0.12
> > branch. Maybe if we all make puppy dog faces in Colin's general
> > direction we can guilt him into taking a look at the 0.13.4
> > rdiff-backup release and seeing how good the xattr support is.
> 
> Testing beta backup software.  My favorite thing to do :)
> 
> Seriously though, while that is good news, I think we still need a good
> archiver.  For example, I'd like to be able to encrypt my backups and
> drop them onto untrusted media.  Or even just back up to a filesystem
> without xattr or SELinux support.  You can't do that with rdiff-backup.
> 

look at duplicity.

-sv