[mbackup-devel] mbackup-0.5

[James O'K. <jo...@mi...>]

If you haven't gotten notice already, I've put 0.5 up on the server. This
release includes several changes. (diff -uNr between 0.4 and 0.5 was over
2500 lines.) I'll try and summarize them here.
I don't remember if I posted this, but I did a restore under a very
controlled setup. So real restores are close.

* Added md5 checksums
* Rewrote plain_reader and plain_writer so they can share code
* Changed p_r and p_w to generate a list of files upfront instead of as
needed
* Changed p_w so that if dynamically generates a output pathname
$outpath/$host/$time/foo
* Added a concept of a controller module that when asks tell you if we
should backup or restore
* Completly broke network_reader and network_writer :)
* wrote unfilter for bzip2_filter

Current TODO list (If anyone is interested speak up and I'll give more
details)

* fix network_reader/network_writer
* add pthreads. I'm most interested in working on this next.
* write unfilter for tar_filter
* Clean-up the configuration process (Still thinking about what this
means)
* add exclude paths to plain_reader
* abstract the writting code in plain_reader and plain_writer so they can
share common code
* get logging_module into a robust working state.
* more as I think of them....


Some people might be interested in this:
http://www.cosource.com/cgi-bin/cos.pl/wish/info/348


-james