mirrordir is buggy ?

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 00:09 +0200, Ploc wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've seen on the Ubuntu page
> <http://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/jaunty/mirrordir> that you were the
> official maintainer of mirrordir.
> 
> I've been using mirrordir until last week where I found out that it was
> buggy and that I had lost many files during my backup.
> 
> I then emailed the original author of mirrordir who told me that he had
> not updated mirrordir since 10 years and that mirrordir was buggy. I
> forward you an email from him and another from a friend of him
> confirming that there is bugs in mirrordir.
> 
> The main bug is that mirrordir does not tell anything when he encounters
> a problem preventing him from copying the file. This is in my opinion a
> severe bug for a backup and mirroring tool.
> 
> That's why I suggest to remove mirrordir from the repository until all
> the bugs are patched. rsync or many other tool can do the same thing as
> mirrordir in a more secure way.
> 
> Let me think what you think of it. You can contact the author (or his
> friend) of mirrordir if you want some confirmation (I'm sorry but I lost
> the mails they sent me).
> 
> Ploc
> 
> -- 
If there is a bug, then file a bug[1].

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mirrordir/+filebug
-- 
Regards,
Chow Loong Jin
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