From 5f0b1cf36d8001eabaf920aa55da4b5eb1d22f26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avery Pennarun Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:54:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md to reflect recent developments. - Remove the version number since I never remember to update it - We now work with earlier versions of python and MacOS - There's now a mailing list - 'bup fsck' allows us to remove one of the things from the "stupid" list. --- README.md | 25 ++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 077645f..ef19a84 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -bup 0.04: It backs things up -============================ +bup: It backs things up +======================= bup is a program that backs things up. It's short for "backup." Can you believe that nobody else has named an open source program "bup" after all @@ -58,10 +58,11 @@ Reasons you might want to avoid bup for you, but we don't know why. It is also missing some probably-critical features. - - It requires python 2.5, a C compiler, and an installed git version >= 1.5.2. + - It requires python >= 2.4, a C compiler, and an installed git version >= + 1.5.3.1. - - It currently only works on Linux, MacOS X 10.5, or Windows (with Cygwin). - Patches to support other platforms are welcome. + - It currently only works on Linux, MacOS X >= 10.4, or Windows (with + Cygwin). Patches to support other platforms are welcome. - It has almost no documentation. Not even a man page! This file is all you get for now. @@ -212,8 +213,8 @@ a lot of files have changed. Things that are stupid for now but which we'll fix later -------------------------------------------------------- -Help with any of these problems, or others, is very, very welcome. Let me -know if you'd like to help. Maybe we can start a mailing list. +Help with any of these problems, or others, is very, very welcome. Join the +mailing list (see below) if you'd like to help. - 'bup save' doesn't know about file metadata. @@ -260,15 +261,6 @@ know if you'd like to help. Maybe we can start a mailing list. We'll have to do it in a totally different way. There are lots of options. For now: make sure you've got lots of disk space :) - - bup doesn't ever validate existing backups/packs to ensure they're - correct. - - This would be easy to implement (given that git uses hashes and CRCs all - over the place), but nobody has implemented it. For now, you could try - doing a test restore of your tarball; doing so should trigger git's error - handling if any of the objects are corrupted. 'git fsck' would - theoreticaly work too, but it's too slow for huge backups. - - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, MacOS, and Linux+Cygwin. There's nothing that makes it *inherently* non-portable, though, so @@ -299,4 +291,3 @@ and you can subscribe by sending a message to: Have fun, Avery -January 2010 -- 2.39.2