This is a todo list, want to help? Pick something and let the list know you are working on it! . Fix all bugs reported on the Debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=backupninja&archive=no . Fix all bugs reported on our Redmine instance: https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/backupninja/issues . Make ninjahelper allow you to pick what type of backup you want (instead of just assuming you want local-to-remote, or push backups. Some people want local-to-local, or remote-to-local, or pull backups). This has been reported for the duplicity handler as Debian bug #346040. . Allow vsnames "all" in the msyql handler. . Factorize the rdiff.helper's connection-related functions into a lib, so that they can be used by dup.helper too. (NB: don't forget that the dup handler has a sshoptions configuration setting, that is often used to specify an alternative SSH key, or a specific IP to bind to.) . Add an exclude option to database handlers so you can configure it to backup all databases, except for the excluded ones