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After setting up the Backup Manager’s website, I took the time to install mailman in order to handle mailing lists nicely (congrats to the mailman maintainer, it installs itself like a charme).

Everything is now ready for welcoming subscribers to the backup-manager mailing lists.

I’m about to release a new version of Backup Manager, featuring a new method for making customized backup: you are now able to enter a command and all the output sent to stdout by this command will be used as the archive content. It can then be compressed with the tool of your choice if needed.

Here is an example of the concept:

command=ssh myhost -c 'mysqldump -uuser -ppass database'
filetype=sql
compressor=bzip2

This will be provided to backup-manager through arrays, so we can implement as many archive methods as we like.
I called this method the “pipe” method, I gues you know why.

This is already available in the svn repository.

Yeah, the last stable release of Bugzilla is going to be available for Sid within a couple of hours (thanks Frankie).

One of the major change with this release is… a new skin!
Eh Eh. You can take a look at it on the Backup Manager’s website: http://bugzilla.backup-manager.org.

As I’m speaking about backup-manager, let’s say the last release (0.5.9a) is also going to be available, the package is in my sponsor’s hands.

My travel through NM also follows, I just sent T&S Part #1 a couple of hours ago…

As I said in my previous post, I wanted to make a website for Backup Manager but didn’t have much time for it. Thanks to Steve Kemp’s last comment, I found what I needed: bamboo.

That’s a very simple WiKi CMS which uses a directory tree for the website structure. It’s pretty easy to deal with and you have something that works after a couple of hours.

So, the website is ready and is available at the following address: http://www.backup-manager.org

I finally took the time to buy the domain backup-manager.org in order to host all the stuff I have around this project.
Tonight, I released a new version of it: 0.5.9a, here is the announcement:

This release provides a method for backuping MySQL databases safely (using mysqldump). The configuration keys have been renamed in order to provide a cleaner syntax, santize checks are performed in order to provide a backward compatibility with old configuration files. Some minor bug fixes also come with this release.

The debian package will follow soon, hopefully.

Moreover, I have put a WebSVN for people who want to follow backup-manager’s development: http://svn.backup-manager.org

There’s also a new project which is on its early developement phase now, called backup-manager-ui. If you want to know more about it, you can dig around the SVN repository.

I also plan to make a nice website for the project, but that means taking a bit more time over the other things I’m working on (NM ?) …