Re: [rdiff-backup-users] feature suggestions

[Philippe Froidevaux]

>> 2. backwards compatibility
>> I know this is hard to implement. But in a large network, you can't
>> live without. (think http 1.0 and http 1.1, ssh 1 and 2)
>> That's my suggestion for future versions. Provide some level of
>> compatibility between stable releases of rdiff-backup. So you only
>> have to upgrade the rdiff-backup install on you backup server(s).
>>   
>
> We eliminate the client completely by installing rdiff only on backup
> server and mount remote boxes via fuse and sshfs.  Simple.  Works great.

not sure it works well if you have a lot of Terabytes to backup :)


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