Bug 507748

Summary:	app-backup/rdiff-backup is in package.mask
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Small_Penguin <dark.shadow>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	PMASKED
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Small_Penguin 2014-04-15 17:59:30 UTC

Lately, rdiff-backup and rdiff-backup-fs got hard masked:

# required by rdiff-backup (argument)
# /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> (09 Apr 2014)
# Dead upstream, has known dataloss bugs.
# Please use something more sane: rsnapshot, backuppc, obnam, ...
=app-backup/rdiff-backup-1.3.3

Ok, rdiff-backup-fs seems to be no longer actively developed, but what are these known dataloss bugs? I couldn't find anything about those bugs. Mentioning some reference would have been fine.

I'm started using obnam backup, but it's three times slower than rdiff-backup.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-04-15 19:08:25 UTC

What are you trying to accomplish here? If you wanted to ask patrick@ a question, then why did you file this bug report? There are many easier ways to communicate.

Comment 2 Small_Penguin 2014-04-15 19:27:22 UTC

Sorry for that, I did not intend to cause troubles. My search on the rdiff-backup mailing list on this topic was in vain. I consider my backups important.

Typically, when a package gets masked, one can read a bug # in the message, and the bug report explains the considerations. In this case, such a bug # is missing, so I thought I'd open this here and simply ask this question. Never mind.