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I've been trying to contact the developers of the SourceForge-hosted flexbackup project off and on for about a year with no response. The last update was in 2003 and none of the listed developers have responded to emails even once. Two questions, then:
1) Is there a policy whereby a new developer can be added after some sort of statute of limitations has expired? I suspect not.
2) If...
2008-08-25 23:53:51 UTC in SourceForge.net
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Hmm. Can't attach the patch file. SourceForge issue? Will try later.
2008-08-24 14:19:06 UTC in flexbackup
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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 in flexbackup
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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 in flexbackup
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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 in flexbackup
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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 in flexbackup
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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 in flexbackup
