[dumpnet-users] Announcement: Dumpnet 2.1.0 Released

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

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I am very proud to announce a new minor release of dumpnet: 2.1.0!

This is a minor release. It contains many small improvements
and some great new features! It is considered the best dumpnet
release ever. It is compatible to 2.x.x.

Special thanks go to Istvan Sleder for showing me the power of rsync
and Christian Elger for making me use VMWare - I just can't do without
it anymore.

New Features:
- - Dumpnet was tested on SuSE, Fedora & Debian Linux, FreeBSD,
  OpenBSD, Solaris and Cygwin (Windows).
- - now also includes sample target host configurations not just
  for Linux und Cygwin but also for FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris.
- - NEW MODULE: dumpnet.host.fstab.rsync! It uses rsync(1) with
  it's --link-dest option. This will create hard links from the
  directory of the last successful backup to the current destination
  directory for unchanged files. Files with changed ownership or
  permissions will not be linked. Much less storage capacity is required
  on the dumpnet host as unchanged files are physically stored only =
once.
  The downside is that if you mess up one file, multiple hard links
  pointing to this file will be affected.
  See http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ for a more
  detailed description of the whole problem.
- - moved development to sourceforge's CVS server


Major Features:
 1.  Dumpnet is implemented in bash scripts only.
 2.  It's a hard disk based backup solution - no tapes are
     necessary.
 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.
 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.
 5.  Dumpnet only needs to be installed on the backup
     machine.
 6.  Dumpnet is flexible and highly configurable.
 7.  Incremental filesystem backups can be done easily
     using dump, tar or rsync.
 8.  Integration of auditing and intrusion detection tools
     such as AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environ-
     ment) and nmap.
 9.  Full support for sudo - no remote root login is
     required.
 10. The report generated about a backup session can be
     sent via email. Encryption using GnuPG is supported.
 11. It provides extensive logging.
 12. Dumpnet was tested on SuSE, Fedora & Debian Linux,
     FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Cygwin (Windows).

To download the new release please visit =
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D94141
For upgrade instructions please see =
http://dumpnet.sourceforge.net/docs/UPGRADE
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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