#3428 Issue open: Prepare a list of obsolete external backup solutions¶

Labels: enhancement, cleanup, ReaR Project

gdha opened issue at 2025-03-17 07:23:¶

In future ReaR release we will gradually phase out old (and perhaps) obsolete external backup solutions.

Therefore, we have to make a list of these external backup solutions we want to remove over time.

Describe the solution you'd like¶

Make ReaR cleaner and remove support for old external backup solutions.

First deprecate them via ErrorIfDeprecated().

Deprecation list (WIP proposals)¶

• GALAXY (Galaxy 5 and 6) : already deprecated via prep/GALAXY10/default/001_galaxy10_deprecation.sh

• GALAXY7 : already deprecated via prep/GALAXY7/default/001_galaxy7_deprecation.sh

• GALAXY10 : already deprecated via prep/GALAXY10/default/001_galaxy10_deprecation.sh

• ZYPPER : seems to be not used in practice, zero user reports, zero issues

• OBDR: as it doesn't seem to work anymore, we better get rid of it

All currently supported backup methods¶

# ls -1 usr/share/rear/restore/

AVA
BACULA
BAREOS
BLOCKCLONE
BORG
CDM
DP
DUPLICITY
EXTERNAL
FDRUPSTREAM
Fedora
GALAXY
GALAXY10
GALAXY11
GALAXY7
NBKDC
NBU
NETFS
NFS4SERVER
NSR
OBDR
OPALPBA
PPDM
RBME
REQUESTRESTORE
RSYNC
SESAM
SUSE_LINUX
TSM
VEEAM
YUM
ZYPPER

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