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A new release of backup-manager is available on my repository. This will introduce a new major feature which is data burning on external media such as CDR or CDRw.

The idea of burning archives on external media has been reported to me several times by users and more significantly by Diego Brouard who is working on a similar tool written in Python.

We share ideas and command lines with Diego in order to save time and to improve our respective tools.

In this release, burning data is available only for CDR/CDRW media (support for DVD burner is planed) and the iso to burn will be first written to disk before being burnt. We plan to adopt a better solution next, which is to pipe the iso image directly to cdrecord in order to avoid overheading the disk.

In my opinion, the best way of using this feature is to place a CDRW in the device and to set up backup-manager to the CDRW burning method. This will daily blank the CD and burn to it all the archives you have (or only the ones of the day if there is not enough space left).

Think of it : every morning, your CDRW has the last backups made … Great isn’t it ?

So, for all the backup-manager users who want to test this new feature, give a try to 0.5.3 !

If some of you here have the time for it, apache-lingerd is ready for
tests

I’ve packaged apache-lingerd in a new way :

• apache-lingerd is still compiled in the apache way, with being a new flavour (so no changes here).
• apache-lingerd now depends on apache-common-lingerd.
• apache-common-lingerd provides default conf for apache-lingerd and
  dpkg-diverts /usr/sbin/apache-modconf from apache-common.

This way, you can have both apache-lingerd and apache on the same box
and maintaining the apache-lingerd sources against the official apache
one becomes easier for me.

The numbering is similar to the apache’s one.

BTW, I’ve added a manpage for lingerd and that makes the apache-lingerd
package lintian valid

I’ve tested with success the package on two boxes but will be very
interesting in hearing your reports.

A new minor release of backup-manager is available.

Changelog is :

• tar.bz filetype is now tar.bz2 in the debconf template.
• removed backup-extracter from the source.

The repository is updated so feel free to upgrade your box.

Thanks to François Chassaing for notifying me about the old remaining perldoc of backup-extracter !

Looking at some of my referers in my stats tool, I’ve found a spanish web page who seems to speak about my unofficial apache-lingerd package.

Here is a translation made with the help of Google :

I have installed the version of apache patched with the lingerd extension. Luckily, there is a recent package for Debian, reason why it has not been necessary to compile apache. The package, made by Sukria, is not still official, but it is done with care, following the criteria of the debian-apache packers (all the “flavors” must be compiled from the same sources).

That’s great to see that some of guys here are using this package, but that’s sad that very few speak about it on the lists.

This package really need some feedback to get a chance to become official, so please tell us if you use it !

I finally took the time to make it.

I’ve now split my blog into two different parts : an english one and a french one.

1. There is one URI for each version of the site :
   • http://www.sukria.net/fr for the french website.
   • http://www.sukria.net/en for the english one.
2. Previous URI (like http://www.sukria.net/wp-rss2.php) point to the french version of the site.
3. As there are two websites, there are also two RSS feeds :
   • http://www.sukria.net/en/wp-rss2.php for the english site.
   • http://www.sukria.net/fr/wp-rss2.php for the french one.

There is now a smal navbar on the top of the page to switch quickly between each language.

Note that both websites are not about the same topics, the french one is more a classical blog than the english one, which is almost dedicated to my work for the Debian project.

A new minor release of backup-manager is available for download.

Chagelog is :

• Changed the debian/control file with a better description.
• Bugfix in backup-manager : tar.bz now works either with ‘tar.bz2′
  or ‘tar.bz’ in the config file.

This is a minor change as you can see, there won’t be any Freshmeat announcement before 0.6 release.

Check the official page for details about the project and installation instructions.

Here it is, backup-manager has been listed on the freshmeat web site.
Here is the project description :

Backup Manager is a small and basic tool for generating archives. It is designed for those who don´t want an obfuscated tool for making tarballs. It can make tar, tar.gz, tar.bz, and zip archives. It can be run in a parallel mode with different configuration files. Archives are kept for a given number of days. Its upload system can use ftp or scp to transfer the generated archives to a list of remote hosts. The configuration file is very simple and basic.

At the time I write this down, the backup-manager´s page has reached more than 200 hits.

This would be cool if some debian developer find this project interesting …

As there was some need for a Debian/sid compatible package, I´ve released a new version of apache-lingerd compiled against Debian´s apache_1.3.33-1.

I’ve also set up a webpage for this package, in order to provide a piece of information about it.

Feel free to grab it from my repository if you want