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Rsync is reportedly causing backups to fail since maintainer began AI code experiment
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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I'm a new and non-power-user of rsync. It seems like a pretty straightforward utility. What active development is even needed?
All software need active development. Dependencies change, new features are requested, bugs appear, ... Even the most simple utilities are concerned
That sounds mostly like maintenance, not active development, except for the feature requests.
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Which project is that? Rsync?
Yes, it's from a github issue thread somebody linked somewhere in this comment section.
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You're not a dev so this is a great question actually. It is not straightforward at all, it's actually a really complicated problem and it does not solve itself