[flexbackup-announce] flexbackup-1.0pre1

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

Announcing flexbackup 1.0pre1.
See http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net

I think that now I've addressed all the known bugs (and most of the
existing addon patches I've seen so far) from the old 0.9.8 version.

More testing welcome before I call it a real 1.0.

Thanks,
  -Edwin


Changelog since the previously announced 0.9.9.6:

Changes:
  - Allow non-root execution along with "sudo". Set
      path{'command'} = "sudo command" or "sudo -u username command" in
      the config file.  Idea from Alex Aiminoff's patch to 0.9.8
  - Added $remoteuser to config for rsh/ssh
  - Check that 'buffer' can run with set $megs.
      From John Reynolds, brought forward from 0.9.8.  Remote as well.
  - Check for existence of remote executables before doing remote backups
      Based on John Reynolds' modifications
  - A "no blocking at all" option. Set $blksize=0 in the config file.
  - Added support for "zip" as valid archive compression type
  - Added support for "zip" as valid log compression type
  - "-device <dev> to override config file (tired of "-d device=/path/to/dir"
      during testing...)
  - "-rmfile all"' when using files will rm all files/db entries for that dir
  - Initial support for "star" archiver. Like tar but does acl's, has its own
      fifo buffering mechanism, and more. see:
      http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html
  - Initial support for "pax" archiver. Really just tar or cpio, but might
      be good for portability across unices...
  - Put .zip back in, same way as in old releases (kinda hokey with the tmpfiles,
      but there is no cleaner way to do it with info-zip utils like I wanted)

Bug Fixes:
  - $erase_rewind_only wasn't working right if we didn't call
    &mt('rewind') right before or after &mt('erase') (I think all spots
    are covered now, but anyway...).  Now we might call rewind twice if
    this is set, but it won't hurt. (from e-smith patches)

  - Fixed problem with other releases trying to use find w/ -cnewer. Desired
    so we get files that change perms, not content.  ctime can't be set
    backward with touch -t (or any mechanism), so we can't back-date a
    reference file.

    Now fixed so at least for local filesystems this works. Remote backups
    still won't catch that type of change.  Code changes:
     -don't use generated timestamp files for local fs's; use the original stampfile
     -refactor remote fs variable
     -get_last_date function changes
     -no stamps at all for level 0

Cleanup:
  - Redid the way buffer/read/write strings were constructed to make more sense
  - Don't set tape blocksize with -toc unless we want current tape (from John)
  - Interactive restore creates log file (was in e-smith stuff)
  - Extract/list/compare/restore use date-stamped logfiles (e-smith)
  - Simplified rmfile() to call existing rmindex() routine
  - Symlink latest log even if staticlogs = true
  - '-rmindex all' says it will wait 5 seconds
  - '-incremental|full|differential' same as '-level <type>'
  - Fix warning with no args
  - touch -t the same for everyone. buggy touch in pre-4.0 fileutils is old by now..
  - Clean up date routines



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