Hi,

I'm Germar Reitze from Germany  in my early 40s. I'm an architect (the one for buildings made of bricks and concrete 😉). I never had a professional IT background but as an autodidact I started coding when I was 8 and I love to train my IT skills.

I started using BackInTime in 2008. But in those days there was no way to use a NAS in a good way. I was forced to mount the NAS with Samba or NFS and sync to that share. This was quite inefficient and slow. So after learning Python I started hacking an SSH option for BiT. Because it worked out better than I thought, I asked Oprea Dan (the founder of BiT) if he would like to merge the code. He gave me lots of good hints on how to improve my code. Round about one year later he asked me if I'd like to take over the whole project.

Since than I invested a lot of time, effort and even money to improve BiT. But in the last 3-4 years I did not find the time anymore to contribute to BiT. Also I changed my personal backup suit from BiT to borg-backup mainly because of the deduplication feature and the append-only mode.

I'm really happy to see a team forming for BiT. I will help as far as I can to support you. I had some problems in the past month (mainly because my gmail account for this project stopped silently to refresh as my fetchmail script didn't use OAUTH). But I fixed that and joined the mailinglist.

So I'm looking forward to see the project moving further. Kind Regards,

Germar