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Hmm. Can't attach the patch file. SourceForge issue? Will try later.
2008-08-24 14:19:06 UTC by john_r_graham
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Patch #1 of 2. Addresses race condition but introduced some remote buffer test issues.
2008-08-24 14:18:09 UTC by john_r_graham
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See the following Gentoo Linux Bugzilla bugs for full details:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105000
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116510
Summary: Possible symlink attack (race condition), and also possibility to create a untrusted script into the tmp_script (race condition).
2008-08-24 14:15:27 UTC by john_r_graham
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Exclude is really designed for individual files that may occur anywhere, not for specific paths where you want to exclude all files under that path. Use prune instead. For your example, if your backup set was baching up from the root of the volume (i.e., "/"), then the prune term would be:
$prune{'/'} = 'ftp/anonymous/media';
Note that, with prune and exclude that the terms are...
2008-03-15 22:53:49 UTC by john_r_graham
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Anyone who uses flexbackup in a cron job surely gets the "syntax OK" message mailed to them each time the job runs, which is rather annoying when it runs properly.
The fix is simple: "Syntax OK" is not an error, it's a regular message, and therefore it belongs in STDOUT and not STDERR.
Thus, this modification:
Line 2418 goes from:
system("perl -c \"$configfile\"");
to:
system("perl...
2008-01-09 00:48:14 UTC by keilaron
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I had './ftp/anonymous/media/.*' in the exclude list, but the filename './ftp/anonymous/media/pelis/PELICULA - Manuale de Amore (Espa\361ol).avi'. Changing the name of the file to something less strange excludes it correctly, so my guess is that flexbackup does not correctly parse some characters.
2007-09-05 00:05:43 UTC by arjonais
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When you specify a list of directories to prune, flexbackup gets it almost right. It backs up all of the directories on the pruning list but none of the contents of those directories. As such, little space is wasted in the backup and it's more if a nit than a real show stopper.
The issue was that flexbackup was taking the list of directories, for instance, like this one...
2007-05-12 09:54:31 UTC by john_r_graham
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Flexbackup uses either the buffer or mbuffer program to help streaming tape drives from thrashing. The buffer program uses the -p command line option to specify the percentage the buffer to fill before writing data. Alas, mbuffer's command line is insidiously incompatible with buffer in this: it uses -P (capital P) instead of -p (lowercase p) to mean the same thing. In mbuffer -p (lowercase p)
2007-03-17 00:45:45 UTC by john_r_graham
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Cool, glad to see its adoption outside Ubuntu! Be sure that gentoo's lzma takes gzip-like arguments with the latter patch, or use the former one. they are mutually exclusive :)
(The gzip-like lzma will be the future lzma, so it's better to adopt that :) )
2007-01-15 01:51:06 UTC by jdong2002
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About to add this to the gentoo release.
2007-01-15 01:26:48 UTC by humpback
