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I love the idea of litestream and litefs and do use it for some smaller projects, but have also been worried it was abandoned. The line is quite thin between "done" and "not maintained".

There clearly still is some untapped potential in this space, so I am glad benbjohnson is exploring and developing these solutions.

Great that the new release will offer the ability to replicate multiple database files.

> Modern object stores like S3 and Tigris solve this problem for us: they now offer conditional write support

I hope this won't be a hard requirement, since some S3 compatible storage do not have this feature (yet). I also do use the SFTP storage option currently.

That's the conclusion I reached a couple months ago when I was evaluating similar tools. The last Litestream release was issued in 2023 and the official Docker image is over a year old. In the end it seemed like a safer bet to accept some inconvenient tradeoffs and just create backups more frequently.

Ben also wrote BoltDB, which was untouched (archived, even) for years despite a thriving community. Sometimes things are just done!

seems to have active commits from 2 weeks ago, just not on the main branch