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Written by David Cantrell 🏏 on 2024-12-04 at 22:21

Back in 2004 (yes, 2004, that's not a typo) I asked if support for the lchown() system call could be added to POSIX.pm, which is part of the #perl 5 core, so that I could use it in #rsnapshot and users wouldn't have to install the third-party Lchown.pm off the #CPAN. "Yes", people said, and it was.

20 years later I have finally created a PR to use the feature I asked for.

Do I win a prize for being the slowest programmer ever?

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Written by Bill Ricker on 2024-12-04 at 22:57

@DrHyde at least it's not a BUG that's been open 20 years.

Hmm.

Why again am i still using my own rsync script instead of this ?

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Written by David Cantrell 🏏 on 2024-12-04 at 23:05

@BRicker same reason that I'm still using rsnapshot - you know it works, and having backups that you know are working is worth a great deal?

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Written by Bill Ricker on 2024-12-04 at 23:06

@DrHyde yeah, but I'm reminded I never got the extra functionality and might be worth the effort when I have the time ...

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Written by David Cantrell 🏏 on 2024-12-04 at 23:28

@BRicker if I were picking a backup tool this week it wouldn't be rsnapshot. It would be something that can still use rsync-over-ssh to pull data from remote hosts, but insisted on using #zfs snapshots instead of using cp -al to create gigantic trees of hard links. Partly for zfs's reliability, partly because creating/destroying snapshots is so much faster. I've not yet found whatever that is, so I might end up writing it myself.

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