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I’ve just realized that the tiny plugin I wrote for Mozilla is still used. And by the way, I also realized that I didn’t post anything about it in english, so here it is.

The last release available for BloggerTool is 0.3. As it works pretty well and is really basic, I don’t plan to update the extension unless I receive request for adding url templates.

BloggerTool will provide a smart way of adding entries to your blog: by just right-clicking on a selection you made when browsing, a popup window get opened and try to reach the website you set up in the BloggerTool preferences window.

There are some predefined websites :

• Blogger.com
• Advogato
• Poseidon

The BloggerTool extension was written from the source of the BlogThis extension.

The Backup Manager Users mailing list

For all the backup-manager users out there, here is a good piece of news : a mailing list has been setup for handling every discussion about backup-manager’s related issue.

We speak about current development ideas and answer question about using backup-manager.
Every comment or idea is welcome on this list.

If you want to subscribe, send a mail to backup-manager@sukria.net with the word « subscribe » in the subject.

Once subscribed to the list, you can mail backup-manager-users@sukria.net.

Ideas for the upcoming 0.5.4 release

I am working on the 0.5.4 release in my free time, one of the major goal for this release is to improve the way backup-manager burns data on CDR devices (this feature is supported as experimental since 0.5.3).

In 0.5.3, an iso image is first built and then, given to cdrecord for burning it to the media.

Thanks to Diego Brouard, backup-manager now burns directly the image using a pipe for giving it to cdrecord. It’s really great in the way that it doesn’t need physical space to store the iso.

Second, as Michael Prokop adviced me, 0.5.4 will add md5 hashes control on each file burnt on the removable media. In this way, user will be notified if an archive is corrupted and wil have the opportunity to redo the burning phase (the --burn option is here for that).

Stay tuned, backup-manager is growing

Looking at some of my referers in my stats tool, I’ve found a spanish web page who seems to speak about my unofficial apache-lingerd package.

Here is a translation made with the help of Google :

I have installed the version of apache patched with the lingerd extension. Luckily, there is a recent package for Debian, reason why it has not been necessary to compile apache. The package, made by Sukria, is not still official, but it is done with care, following the criteria of the debian-apache packers (all the “flavors” must be compiled from the same sources).

That’s great to see that some of guys here are using this package, but that’s sad that very few speak about it on the lists.

This package really need some feedback to get a chance to become official, so please tell us if you use it !

I finally took the time to make it.

I’ve now split my blog into two different parts : an english one and a french one.

1. There is one URI for each version of the site :
   • http://www.sukria.net/fr for the french website.
   • http://www.sukria.net/en for the english one.
2. Previous URI (like http://www.sukria.net/wp-rss2.php) point to the french version of the site.
3. As there are two websites, there are also two RSS feeds :
   • http://www.sukria.net/en/wp-rss2.php for the english site.
   • http://www.sukria.net/fr/wp-rss2.php for the french one.

There is now a smal navbar on the top of the page to switch quickly between each language.

Note that both websites are not about the same topics, the french one is more a classical blog than the english one, which is almost dedicated to my work for the Debian project.

Here it is, backup-manager has been listed on the freshmeat web site.
Here is the project description :

Backup Manager is a small and basic tool for generating archives. It is designed for those who don´t want an obfuscated tool for making tarballs. It can make tar, tar.gz, tar.bz, and zip archives. It can be run in a parallel mode with different configuration files. Archives are kept for a given number of days. Its upload system can use ftp or scp to transfer the generated archives to a list of remote hosts. The configuration file is very simple and basic.

At the time I write this down, the backup-manager´s page has reached more than 200 hits.

This would be cool if some debian developer find this project interesting …

A big thank to the grml team !

As backup-manager is not yet included in the official Debian tree and as it might take some time to be, grml now handles bug reports for the backup-manager project. As their Bug Tracking System is powered by debbugs (the same as official Debian team use) it would be really nice to use.

If you use backup-manager and want to report a bug, feel free to use the grml´s BTS !