[Adump-devel] Adump status.

[David B. <ad...@da...>]

Since there is now another subscriber on this list, I though I would post
some status.  I've been a bit busy at work, so I haven't made it to the
first release quite as quickly as I had hoped.

Adump currently implements the following:

- A config file language, and basic config file options to describe the
  configuration of backups needed to be done.

- Multiple levels of backups (full, and incremental).

- Generation of cpio archive output.  ('cpio -H crc' style)

- The configuration file can name a log file where a time-stamped log of
  the backups performed is made.

- A 'real-time' progress meter status display.

- The start of a media manager.  Can handle appending files to a tape, and
  verifying the label on the tape.

Things I would like to finish before adump.1.0 is released:

- Write a "member header" before each archive which describes the contents
  of the dump, and for incremental backups, lists the files that were
  removed by this incremental backup.

- Reorganize the option parsing and top level structure of the program.

- Properly handle tapes that are unlabelled, or are not properly labelled.

- Implement exclusion lists on backups to prevent certain files from being
  backed up (browser cache, for example).

There are many things to do for future releases, but this looks like a
good point to make a release and let others try out the code.

David Brown