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Subject: Re: backup tools
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what exactly deficiences and requirements not met by rsync are you talking 
about?

> simplifications of rsync's ability to exclude files or directories, elegant
> handling of backups' expirations) are sufficient to make it a worthy
> alternative to naked rsync.  The frontend is written in Perl and easily
> extended.
>
> By "heterogeneous networks" I'm afraid I mean ones composed of machines running
> unix-like OSs; I've no idea if there's an rsync port to Windows.
there are many. I know people using it ... after they know how useful it 
is based on my examples. No idea how stable and usable they are.