Suggestion: casync support

[lavidd]

Hi guys,

there is a new tool available that appears to be superior to rsync as data synchronization tool: https://github.com/systemd/casync

In particular:

• more data efficient than rsync
• faster than rsync
• friendly to CDNs
• other

I suggest that rsync in barman to be replaced by casync.

Any thoughts on this?

Best,

lavidd

[stardude900]

Personally, the environment I manage which is primarily RHEL 5-7, it wouldn't be a good fit for us partly because it's not in the standard repos. It is a neat piece of software and once it's a little more mature probably would be a good thing to have as an additional option.

[ShalbafZadeh]

@lavidd hi casync seems a good piece of software but it's not mainstream yet and will add headache to adopt barman in some environments(old servers , tight security policy about installing additional package etc.) maybe after a greater adoption it might worth a shot!