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so, its 2014 and still people use homegrown variations of tar, rsync, git and whatnot. Or a half done solution like this, or an abandoned solution like box backup.

why on earth isnt there already a perfect cross platform open source backup program? :)

I know,i know..why dont i make one myself? because we dont need a nother half done solution :-b

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Every "perfect cross platform open source program" had to start as a homegrown variation of tar, rsync, git, and whatnot. It's not like they fall out of the sky.

of course things dont come out of nothing, i just find it so odd that we have open source top quality OSes, monitoring systems, programming languages, ides, browsers, graphics suites, etc etc, but no backup ..

Not having a backup isn't a "pain point". Until you have a disaster. And disasters are infrequent enough ..

(dont mean tobsay this is a bad product or anything, just not a finished product..)

you can help finish it

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