Wirzenius: Retiring Obnam

Lars Wirzenius announcesthat he is ending development of the Obnam backup system. "Aftersome careful thought, I fear that the maintainability problems of Obnam canrealistically only be solved by a complete rewrite from scratch, and I'mnot up to doing that. If you use Obnam, you should migrate to some otherbackup solution. Don't worry, you have until the end of the year. I will bearound and I intend to fix any serious bugs in Obnam; in particular,security flaws. But you should start looking for a replacement soonerrather than later." LWN looked atObnam in 2012.