[dumpnet-users] Announcement: Dumpnet 2.0.0 Released

[Lukas F. <luk...@lu...>]

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I am very proud to announce the second major release of dumpnet!

It contains many improvements and is considered the best dumpnet release =
ever :) It is not compatible to 1.x.x.

New features:
 - Most parts rewritten from ground up=20
 - Improved logging=20
 - Improved documentation with sample configurations=20
 - Flexible and powerful new configuration file format=20
 - Integration of AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment)=20
 - You can define cleanup policies to specify which backups should be =
automatically (re)moved=20
 - Restore mode: you can find the files necessary for a restore.=20
 - Also tested for OpenBSD=20
 - Upgrade instructions can be found in the UPGRADE file


Major features of dumpnet:
 1. Dumpnet is implemented in bash scripts only.=20
 2. It's a hard disk based backup solution - no tapes are neccesary.=20
 3. The backup machine on which dumpnet is installed func- tions as a =
SSH client while the target hosts (the hosts to be backuped) function as =
SSH servers. Public key authentication is used.=20
 4. Due to the use of SSH all traffic between the backup machine and the =
target hosts is encrypted and can be run over the Internet.=20
 5. Dumpnet only needs to be installed on the backup machine.=20
 6. Dumpnet is flexible and highly configurable.=20
 7. Incremental filesystem backups can be done easily.=20
 8. Integration of auditing and intrusion detection tools such as AIDE =
(Advanced Intrusion Detection Environ- ment) and nmap.=20
 9. The report generated about a backup session can be sent via email. =
Encryption using GnuPG is supported.=20
 10. It provides extensive logging.=20
 11. Dumpnet was tested on SuSE Linux 9.1, OpenBSD 3.6 and Cygwin =
(Windows 2000/XP).


To download the new release please visit =
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D94141

The public OpenPGP key that is necessary to validate the signature can =
be found at http://www.lukasfeiler.com/gnupg.html.
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