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Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by gcr on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:40AM (#7247904)
Every "perfect cross platform open source program" had to start as a homegrown variation of tar, rsync, git, and whatnot. It's not like they fall out of the sky.
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Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by brimstedt on Sunday February 16, 2014 @01:08PM (#7248491)
of course things dont come out of nothing, i just find it so odd that we have open source top quality OSes, monitoring systems, programming languages, ides, browsers, graphics suites, etc etc, but no backup ..
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Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by pjc50 on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:31AM (#7251399)
Not having a backup isn't a "pain point". Until you have a disaster. And disasters are infrequent enough ..
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