On 2016-05-16 07:50 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote:
>
> On 16/05/2016 22:05, Stephen Joyce wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks to Lars and Mauro. It's great that you've taken this on.
>>
>> FWIW, I contacted Craig directly last week and received a reply over
>> the weekend. It sounds like he's quite busy, and does not regularly
>> read these lists, but he still hopes to be able to contribute more in
>> the future (ie, review updates and releases).
>>
>> He also mentioned that the one remaining feature he had planned for
>> 4.0 before it became beta was FTP. Unless there is a large demand
>> among users for FTP, I'm unsure it should hold up the beta label.
>> Thoughts?
>>
> I would definitely suggest that the lack of FTP backup support in v4 is
> a non-issue. I think the huge majority of users are using one of rsync,
> tar or smb (I could be wrong, but based on the emails we see on the list
> regarding the various backup methods....). In addition, if any user of
> FTP finds that such a feature is so important, then they will need to
> find a way to implement the feature. Craig clearly has no plans to work
> on the feature (or should I say no time available), so waiting for this
> feature could easily take another 5 years or more.
>
> There are known bugs in v4, and it would be nice to get those fixed
> before releasing a 4.0 (even though we all know that the .0 release is
> buggy, we should at least remove the known bugs first).
>
>
I use FTP backup on a single, very old machine running QNX 4. I've been 
using BackupPC for over a decade, and this is the only machine I've ever 
used FTP on.

Gerald


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