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Hey, you probably know about restic and borg for backups. They are pretty mature and very commonly used.

Rustic is a fully compatible reimplementation of restic in Rust and they do seem to have implemented a few improvements over restic. The developer even used to be a contributor on restic.

Is anyone here using it already? It looks super promising but I'd love to hear your opinion!

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[-] Celediel@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 years ago

Imagine a world where we're all using 30 year old software because it "still kinda works".

[-] BlueBockser@programming.dev -1 points 3 years ago

restic is 8 years old though

[-] Celediel@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 years ago

And? I didn't mention restic, nor did the person I was replying to. I was under the impression we were both talking about software being rewritten in Rust in general.

[-] BlueBockser@programming.dev 0 points 3 years ago

Imagine a world where we're all using 30 year old software because it "still kinda works".

restic is living proof that is neither 30 years old nor "kinda works". It also doesn't suffer from typical memory access problems because it's not written in C.

Given that this whole post is about restic, this felt relevant to point out. You're apparently not talking about rewrites in Rust in general, but rather rewrites in Rust of software the likes on GNU and the Linux kernel.

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