Backup Manager

Versatile Command Line Backup Tool for GNU/Linux

Archive for May 2009

May/09

5

Backup Manager 0.7.8

Released: 1st-February-2009

This release fixes 14 known bugs found in version 0.7.7.

Changelog

  • Tempfiles are correctly created/purged in backup-manager-upload – thanks to Josh Triplett and Thomas Parmelan. Closes Debian #461512.
  • Added a –homedir flag to gnupg commands – thanks to Jochen Zimmermann. Closes Debian #494833.
  • Removes MySQL configuration file when automatically created. – Thanks to Mihnea-Costin Grigore. Closes Debian #496051
  • Resets the error_code so a failure doesn’t propagate -Thanks to Filippo Giunchedi. Closes Debian #482087
  • Rewrite of check_error_code() so we can ignore some error codes depending on the program used. Closes Debian #482089.
  • backup-manager-upload correctly report error when FTP uploads fail – thanks to Henning Bitsch for the report and Thomas Parmelan for the patch. Closes bug #199.
  • doc/user-guide.sgml.  Fixed the example for BM_ARCHIVE_NICELEVEL – thanks to Rafa G. for the report. Closes bug #200.
  • backup-manager-upload.  Fix in the get_ssh_opts function so we correctly retreive SSH/SCP switches. Closes bug #196.
  • backup-manager-upload. Don’t set a port switch to ssh/scp commands if BM_UPLOAD_SSH_PORT is not set. Thanks to Andy Shinn for the report and the diagnostic. Closes bug #195.
  • lib/backup-methods.sh. Change permission whenever an archive is made, ether if it’s correctly built or not. Thansk to Philippe Villiers for the report. Closes bug #194.
  • lib/backup-methods.sh. Don’t try to build empty archives for targets found in BM_TARBALL_BLACKLIST. Thanks to Henning Bitsch for the report. Closes bug #178.

Download

backup-manager-0.7.8.tar.gz

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May/09

5

Backup Manager Release 0.6.3

Released: 30-Aug-2007

This release is the third bugfix version of the stable branch.

It fixes a security issue about a password disclosure that occurs during FTP uploads.

Changelog

Download
backup-manager-0.6.3.tar.gz

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May/09

4

New website

Welcome to the new website of Backup Manager. Things have been a little chaotic here in the past but we’re slowly getting things in order. Please don’t hesitate to comment with your feedback.

Take care and happy backups :)

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