Acknowledgments
Ben Escoto is the principal author of rdiff-backup. Andrew Ferguson is the current maintainer.
Other code contributors are:
- Daniel Hazelbaker, who contributed Mac OS X resource fork support. (July 2003)
- Dean Gaudet, for checking in many patches, and for finding and fixing many bugs.
- Andrew Ferguson, for improving Mac OS X support and fixing many user-reported bugs.
- Josh Nisly, for contributing native Windows support. (June 2008)
- Fred Gansevles, for contributing Windows ACLs support. (July 2008)
Thanks also to:
- The Free Software Foundation, for hosting rdiff-backup with their Savannah system.
- Dave Kempe for hosting the wiki, his work porting rdiff-backup to windows, and various bugfixes/good advice.
- Andrew Tridgell and Martin Pool for writing rdiff, and also for rsync, which gave me the idea
- Martin Pool and Donovan Baarda for their work on librsync, which rdiff-backup needs.
- Michael Friedlander for initially acting interested in the idea and giving me accounts for testing
- Lots of people on the mailing list for their helpful comments, advice, and patches, particularly Alberto Accomazzi, Donovan Baarda, Jeb Campbell, Greg Freemyer, Jamie Heilman, Marc Dyksterhouse, and Ralph Lehmann.