backup-manager 0.5.4 released
Here it is, after some work, 0.5.4 is out there, let’s see what’s inside.
A better burning engine
First of all, the way backup-manager burns CDR is improved in this release, indeed we used to first create on the disk an ISO image and then burn it to the media.
Now, the ISO image, made by mkisofs is directly piped to cdrecord.
That’s the tricky thing : the ISO image won’t take precious disk space anymore !
The power of MD5 sums
Whenever an archive is made, its MD5 sum is generated and stored in a file. This will allow backup-manager to check that every file burnt on a removable media is not corrupted (by doing MD5 checksums).
As this is working very well for the removable media, I’m seriously thinking of generalizing this process whenever an archive is moved by backup-manager (say, when a network transfert occurs for instance 
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Behind the scene, the code
The last major change for this release is not something obvious if you don’t look at the code… (Read the source Luke !) Until this release, backup-manager was one big shell script and everything was mixed inside. From this release, there are some shell libraries installed in /usr/lib/backup-manager/ that will provide functions. This will be better for the future of backup-manager, we would be able to add more and more features to the code without messing it up.
As before, fell free to grab this release, test it and report your comments to the list ! 
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