backup-manager 0.5.3 released
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 ! 
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