[Sugar-devel] Journal Backup/Restore UI

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Sun Mar 28 20:24:26 EDT 2010


On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 21:22 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Oh, well, indeed. Though we need to figure out how to glue it to the
> rsync back-end.
> 
> The easy part is binding rsync to Python: this was already done in
> duplicity by wrapping librsync with simple C and Python code which we
> could steal.

Wait, I had overlooked this note:

  librsync does not speak the (hairy) application-specific protocol
  used by rsync. They only share an algorithm, not any code.

This rules it out for our usecase, unless we also want to rewrite the xs
backend.

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