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 release of Backup Manager has just been published: 0.5.9b
This release provides DVD burning support with growisofs and two new
methods for generating archives: one for backing up SVN repositories
(with svnadmin), the other for making generic archives based on the
output of a given command. Some bugs have also been closed, the
generated MD5 files are now compliant with the md5 program.
The Debian package will come soon…
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Today kickass’ combo : the popcon graph + the PTS
I’m pretty happy to see that each new backup-manager package brings a couple of new users.
As expected, each variation in the graph can be associated to an upload in the archive.
Popcon graphs rock!
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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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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
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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 ?) …
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As expected, the last stable release of Bugzilla, 2.18.3 has been uploaded to unstable yesterday (thanks frankie).
I’m now focusing on collecting translations for backup-manager (debconf templates and upstream po files as well) so I can release the last version in a localized shape.
Thanks a lot to every translator, I can now say that backup-manager will come fully translated in the following languages: german, french, spanish, czech, japanese and vietnamese.
Bugzilla, Debian, backup-manager
This weekend, I took the train from Paris to Caen to see my family, that was the perfect time for testing my new laptop.
Using cpufreq for dowclocking the processor and reducing the LCD brightness allowed me to use my laptop for more than 4 hours without power supply. That means that I hacked a lot in the train.
I made a new upstream version of Backup Manager on friday and packaged the new upstream version of Bugzilla (2.18.3) on sunday.
That’s really funny to use the time you spend in the train for hacking, most of the other travellers must not understand what the hell you have on your laptop (No big Windows button? Is that really a laptop, eh?), but most of all, that’s really great to use this precious time.
Now, bugzilla 2.18.3-1 is waiting for an upload and backup-manager 0.5.8b-1 is ready but needs a lot of help concerning the gettext translations.
Indeed, I used podebconf-report-po to notify the debian translators, but also requested their help for the upstream i18n. I hope we’ll manage to translate the upstream bits in Czech, Vietnamese or even Japanese (all of those are almost done for the debconf templates).
As soon as backup manager has a good i18n shape, I’ll ask my sponsor to upload it (I plan to do it in a week or two).
Bugzilla, backup-manager
A new release of Backup Manager is available: 0.5.8b.
This release provides two security fixes. First of all, every temp files generated are handled by mktemp, second, the archive repository can be readable and writable by a specific user and group instead of being world accessible.
Moreover, the configuration file is now validated before using it, triggering warnings if mistakes are encountered. The code has also been cleaned a bit and the french translation updated.
You can check the changelog for details.
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The new release of Backup Manager (0.5.8) has been uploaded to unstable.
A couple of bugs are closed and some new features are provided.
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