The following authors contributed code to the project
Andi Dittrich - https://andidittrich.de
- Created the rsnapshot-ng fork https://github.com/AenonDynamics/rsnapshot-ng
- current maintainer of rsnapshot-ng (as of 2017)
Benedikt Heine bebe@bebehei.de
- current maintainer of rsnapshot (2015-2017) https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot
David Keegel djk@cybersource.com.au
- ex-maintainer of rsnapshot (2008-2015)
- Allowed remote ssh directory paths starting with "~/" as well as "/"
- Fixed race condition in lock file creation, improved error reporting
- Fixed a number of other bugs and buglets
- Release management for rsnapshot 1.2.9, 1.3.0
David Cantrell david@cantrell.org.uk
- ex-maintainer of rsnapshot (2005-2007)
- Wrote the rsnapshot-diff utility
Nathan Rosenquist
- Primary author and ex-maintainer of rsnapshot (until 2005).
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chrome@real-time.com
- Created the RPM .spec file which allowed the RPM package to be built, among other things.
Ted Zlatanov tzz@lifelogs.com
- Added the one_fs feature, autoconf support, good advice, and much more.
Ralf van Dooren r.vdooren@snow.nl
- Added and maintains the rsnapshot entry in the FreeBSD ports tree.
SlapAyoda
- Provided access to his computer museum for software testing.
Carl Boe boe@demog.berkeley.edu
- Found several subtle bugs and provided fixes for them.
Shane Liebling shane@cryptio.net
- Fixed a compatibility bug in utils/backup_smb_share.sh
Christoph Wegscheider christoph.wegscheider@wegi.net
- Added and maintains the Debian rsnapshot package
Bharat Mediratta bharat@menalto.com
- Improved the exclusion rules to avoid backing up the snapshot root (among other things).
Peter Palfrader weasel@debian.org
- Enhanced error reporting to include command line options
Nicolas Kaiser nikai@nikai.net
- Fixed typos in program and man page
Chris Petersen - http://www.forevermore.net/
- Added cwrsync permanent-share support
Robert Jackson RobertJ@promedicalinc.com
- Added use_lazy_deletes option
Justin Grote justin@grote.name
- Improved rsync error reporting code
Anthony Ettinger aettinger@sdsualumni.org
- Wrote the utils/mysqlbackup.pl script
- Wrote utils/rsnapshotdb
Sherman Boyd
- Wrote the utils/random_file_verify.sh script
William Bear bear@umn.edu
- Wrote the utils/rsnapreport.pl script (pretty summary of rsync stats)
Eric Anderson anderson@centtech.com
- Improvements to utils/rsnapreport.pl.
Alan Batie alan@batie.org
- Bug fixes for include_conf
Dieter Bloms dieter@bloms.de
- Multi-line configuration options
Henning Moll newsScott@gmx.de
- Added stop_on_stale_lockfile
Ben Low ben@bdlow.net
- Added support for Linux LVM snapshots
David Grant davidgrant@gmail.com
- Added support for retrying rsync "rsync_numtries" number of times
Matt McCutchen matt@mattmccutchen.net
- Wrote rsnapshot-copy (to copy snapshot roots using rsync --link-dest)
Imran Chaudhry ichaudhry@gmail.com
- Added -H to rsnapshot-diff
Mike Rubel - http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
- Created the original shell scripts on which this project is based