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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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Borg doesn't have any indications of any slop involvement and borgmatic has a strong stance against it ("in order to continue to earn its place as trusted backup software, borgmatic must remain handwritten by humans instead of vibe coded by generative AI").
Sorry to be the messenger, but they aren't opposed to it: CONTRIBUTING.md#responsible-ai-usage.
As long as they genuinely stick by what they write there, that doesn't sound too unreasonable, does it?
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That's nice. But Borg isn't rsync and can't replace it. Rsync is a thousand times more versatile. Not to mention usable.
I haven't noticed anything I can't backup with borg that I could with rsync