[mbackup-devel] News Update

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

I've spent dozens of hours the past work working on some threaded code and
I'm happy with what I have now. I'll shortly be committing it to cvs as
soon as I remember how to commit to the right branches. For a little
longer I'm going to keep threads as a seperate branch until I'm happy with
the results.
In some quick testing, a threaded version took only 80% of the time that
the non-threaded version took and I think this number can be improved
further. A key thing will making things so that they are self-tuning.

I talked to someone who was willing to try a BeOS port of the code. I
don't remember if he subscribed to the list or not. I'd also like to find
people to do ports to freebsd, openbsd, and netbsd. Ask your friends.

I was talking to a friend of mine about the project and he made the
comment that it sounds like we were building a framework for building
backup applications. I like the sound of that and it's a closer
description of what I have planned in my head for mbackup, so I'm going to
change some of the sourceforge descriptions.

I'm going to post a help wanted on sourceforge and try and find someone to
do the xml config file stuff. I'd really like to get some movement
happening again.

I can't think of anything else off-hand.

-james