It’s more than a year since the first development release of Backup Manager, this easy-to-use tool for archiving your data under Linux.
Version 0.6 which has just been released, provides a set of features for letting you implement your own backup strategy.
Backup Manager is able to use any existing infrastructure for achieving this goal: FTP or SSH accounts, CD/DVD burning devices…
A couple of different backup methods are available: tarballs (incremental or not), dumps (MySQL, SVN) and a generic method which uses content sent on stdout by an arbitrary command.
An effort has been given regarding localisation, the program is now translated in 5 languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian and Vietnamese.
The user guide has been writen and is available in different formats.
Hopefully, the debian package will come very soon…
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Last days have been quite productive for Backup Manager and I’m glad to see that all the development phase seems to be finished in the SVN repository.
As you can see, we’ll be able to release the first stable version of Backup Manager (0.6) as soon as the user guide is written.
From the code tree point of view, all the known bugs are closed by now and requested new features implemented. I put all my energy in the user guide now, and hope I could fine some english native speakers soon…
I don’t plan to release a new debian package for the last 0.5.9x versions, the next debian package will be 0.6-1, and it will be backported to sarge if needed.
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A new package of electricsheep is coming (uploaded this morning). This package brings a new upstream version (basically a CVS snapshot) which solves some buffer overflows. Moreover, I patched the sources in order to avoid the use of xsetbg which has a very annoying bug: it keeps opening X clients without closing the old ones.
As electricsheep is a screensaver that computes new fractal animations continously, you are likely to let it run all the night for days… and that leads to consume all your X displays… I then disabled the two calls to xsetbg.
In the meantime, the severity of the xloadimage bug has been raised to grave, and it has been tagged security.
I hope we could find a solution for this problem.
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