[flexbackup-announce] flexbackup is resurrected - 0.9.9.6

[Edwin H. <ed...@co...>]

flexbackup is back under active maintenance.
Announcing the first release in 3 years - flexbackup-0.9.9.6.

Available at http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net

I've tried to go back through some of the ancient email archives I had and
fix obvious problems and bugs; just update things in general, and
re-familiarize myself with how it works.

Bug fixes:
   - dump level comparison was slightly off
   - marking "old" logs was a bit wrong
   - missing 'rewind' in one spot caused problems
   - a few other misc...
   
A few things have been added:
   - you can have > 9 levels
   - static filename options for archives-on-disk and logs
   - remote tape drive support
   - raw block device support
   - use null-separated filename list from find
   - configurable path / command name overrides
   - trick to detect pipeline errors when shell=bash
   - -level [full|differential|incremental] that translates into
     an appropriate numeric level 

Everything is at sourceforge rather than on my machine this time around.

Please try it out (if you are still interested in it), and we'll try to get
this thing back on track.  Sorry if I never replied to email during the
development lapse.  If you had patches to 0.9.8 please send them
(fle...@li...).

I don't want to restructure everything immediately; as long as my additions
over the past week (and a couple I have in progress) haven't caused any big
screwups, I'd like to make a 1.0 release soon and take on other changes after
that.

 -Edwin


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 Edwin Huffstutler     Linux - because reboots are for hardware changes
 ed...@co...   GnuPG Key ID: AE782DC9