Re: Recent improvements

[Michael Terry <mike mterry name>]

Whoops, resending to list as well as Vej.

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017, at 19:58, Michael Terry wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017, at 08:22, Vej wrote:
> >  Am 11.08.2017 um 05:27 schrieb Michael Terry:
> > > -- Less oddities around dependencies needing to be installed for various
> > > duplicity backends.
> > >
> > > For now, I'm not removing any code supporting those four cloud backends
> > > (S3, GCS, Rackspace, and OpenStack). I'm not sure I ever should (even if
> > > we one day remove the option to back up to them, removing restoring
> > > would strand existing data). But deprecating them is useful I think.
> > I agree that we should always keep the restoring functionalities there.
> > Some users do not do their backups regularly but keep one "snapshot"
> > around for years until they have a mishap and need to restore as much as
> > possible. These users will not notice that their backend is not longer
> > supported.
>
> I was thinking about this today -- and actually, I suppose we could drop
> support somewhat easily...  (A) duplicity will still be there.  So
> restores could be done, just more difficultly.  And (B) the user could
> always download the files from the remote location and restore off the
> local copy of the backup.
>
> So we wouldn't be leaving them entirely in the lurch...  But not
> something I'm in a rush to do.  Just good that we have the option.