From 0.6.2 the rdup-utils, then consisting out of rdup-gzip, rdup-crypt, rdup-gpg, rdup-simple, rdup-snap and rdup-snap-link, was split off to lead a life of its own.

This was the end of the utils and I wanted to concentrate solely on rdup.

However, after the split, I created a tool called rdup-tr. It is written in C and is a generic transform tool, which can do everything rdup-gzip, rdup-crypt and rdup-gpg could do and more. With rdup-tr you can also generate tar, pax or cpio archives. See this post for more info.

rdup-snap is used to update a directory structure with an rdup archive. It is written in Perl. As writing rdup-tr was not that difficult I decided that rdup-snap should also be rewritten in C. This lead to the creation of rdup-up, click here for more info.

So from the original utils, only the shell wrapper rdup-simple and rdup-snap-link (a small helper utility which figures out what kind of backup should be made and which hardlinks any previous backup) were left. rdup-snap-link came back as rdup-ln.sh, which is now installed in /usr/lib/rdup. rdup-simple was gone, but the core of the shell script is now documented in rdup-backups(7).

So to summarize, only rdup-simple has no equivalent in rdup version 0.6.4. And while thinking about it, I think it should, but then also as something that is installed in /usr/lib/rdup as rdup-simple.sh.

For 0.6.5 I'm doing a little rewrite so the rdup-simple.sh works with rdup-tr and rdup-up. My original plan was to not do any development on the extra utilities, but this seems to be impossible :-)