How about a little namechange? (l->L)

[Tarjei Huse]

Hi

_Great_ program! However, there are a few things that might make it even better:

1. Namechange: backup2l -> backup2L
I mukked about a few hours before I understood my misstake while trying to read the manpage :)

2. Rsync/ssh/scp support : Beeing able to use backup2l to remote machines would be great.

3. Some kind of db support for backing up databases. I guess this can be done using the post and pre functions but still :)

Anyhow. These are minor problems :)
th

[Gundolf Kiefer]

Tarjei,

thanks for your feedback :-)

Concerning your remarks:

1. That's probably a matter of taste. Unix commands are usually lower-case. For those out there who have serious problems with the manpage, try to type this:

backup2<tab><pos1>man<space><return>

2. The idea is to keep the backup tool as simple as possible so that it remains easy to use for those who just have their home PC without a LAN. A future extension of backup2l will be to allow to pipe the output of tar to some user-defined program. Together with (simple) additional helper scripts this should allow arbitrary use of scp/rsync etc. .

3. The same comment (simplicity) cholds here, too: IMHO the best way is to provide additional scripts which are then invoked by PRE_BACKUP and POST_BACKUP. These scripts have to be specific to certain db systems.

Patches are welcome!