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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.

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