[Pybackpack] Pybackpack development discontinued

[Phill Whiteside]

+1

Thanks Andrew, for everything. I'll look into your suggestion as we're
still on the look out for a GUI system that is low on resources for Lubuntu
[1].

Wishing you every success in the future,

Phill.
1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu


On 2 July 2012 04:43, curtis osterhoudt <flutzpah at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Agreed! I used pybackpack for several years, to ease my rdiff-backup usage.
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> Thanks for your work over time, Andrew. It is much appreciated.
>                               Sincerely,
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> From: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
> >To: Andrew Price <andy at andrewprice.me.uk>
> >Cc: pybackpack at lists.sucs.org
> >Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 8:33 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Pybackpack] Pybackpack development discontinued
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> >On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Andrew Price wrote:
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> >> Hi all,
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> >> Due to time constraints and lack of interest I'm officially putting
> pybackpack to bed, it has ceased to be, it is an ex-project.
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> >> If anybody still uses it for making backups, they needn't worry:
> Pybackpack is essentially a graphical front end to rdiff-backup which can
> be used to restore files from existing backups. Last I looked there were
> other GUIs for rdiff-backup which could also be used to restore files.
> Failing that, it is possible to restore the latest backup simply by copying
> the files from the backup location.
> >>
> >> Backup tools have come a long way since pybackpack was first created
> and there are much better ones to be found, my current preference being
> Lars Wirzenius's Obnam, a young but useful backup tool project which will
> probably give rise to some graphical front ends in time, if it hasn't
> already.
> >>
> >> Pybackpack has not been in the Fedora repositories for a while and I'll
> shortly be requesting its removal from future versions of Debian. I'm going
> to shut down the wiki and bug tracker as well as this mailing list in due
> course.
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> >Andy,
> >Thank you for working on pybackpack while you did and thank you for
> sending this message out and properly discontinuing the project. I
> appreciate it.
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> >Good luck in the future.
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> >-sv
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