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Debian Changelog sbackup (0.10.5)

2008

sbackup (0.10.5) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Update to use su-to-root (Closes: #479826)
   * Revert the group of all files to 'root' as there
     is no common admin group (Closes: #427697)
   * Save partition information (Closes: #431068)
   * Remove *.pyc files on purge (Closes: #428022)
   * Exclude /home/*/.gvfs/ folders by default (Launchpad: #222898)
   * Fix a typo preventing logarithmic cleanup from
     working (Closes: #447252) (Launchpad: #126278, #71698)
   * Fix a popup help type for SSH target recovery (Launchpad: #183650)
   * Check regex before adding it (Launchpad: #191127)
   * Add stop_if_no_target option to abort backups if the taget is
     on a removable drive that is not currently connected
   * Fully draw the "Restoring ..." info box before restoring a file

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:53:10 +0100

2007

sbackup (0.10.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Official release.
   * fix a bug preventing simple-backup-config to resolve anacron monthly
   * Ubuntu Bug #67814 - fixed permission problems with remote backups
 
   * gksu is used instead of gksudo (Closes: #327222)
   * Cron job is removed on package purge (Closes: #346097)
   * Should not crash on non-dirs in backup target (Closes: #391948)
   * Fixed typo in About (Closes: #414783)
   * Included Franch translation (Closes: #396059)
   * Updated all translations

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Sat, 19 May 2007 16:53:10 +0100

sbackup (0.10.4~beta10) unstable; urgency=low

   * Public beta release

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Sat, 19 May 2007 16:53:10 +0100

sbackup (0.10.4~beta9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Gnomevfs doesn't close directory handler.
   * Hope this is the last beta
   * Resolved a bug when using ssh
   * change some errors printing
   * admin GID is now get dynamically .
   * Changed the right on the flist file to set read access to admin
   * Fixes a problem with incremental backups
   * Avoid usage of current dir for the lock file
   * Version on about window is set to 0.10.4
   * Bug #112540 fix : sbackup now runs under root:admin. directories are created with read access for admins
   * Bug #102577 fix : optimizing the backup process ( thanks to Oliver Gerlich )
   * A lot of bug fixes, This is just for testers

 -- Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) <wattazoum@gmail.com>  Sat, 5 May 2007 20:02:31 +0200

sbackup (0.10.3-0.2) unstable; urgency=high

   * Enhancement. applied patch proposed by Oliver Gerlich. See: Bug #110113
   * Code cleaned to prevent warnings about non existing GTK components :
     see Bug #106818
   * Ensure that daily backups are not skipped if the system is off at the scheduled backup time
 
   * Created a sbackup script to install in /usr/share/sbackup/sbackup
   (this script is almost the same created by sbackup in /etc/cron.d/
 
   * Makefile :
   * add a flag to create non existing dirs
   * install the "sbackup" script in "/usr/share/sbackup/sbackup"
 
   * the python files have been renamed in *.py and the Makefile has been
    changed to be compliant -links are created into BIN without
    the py extention-
 
   * The About dialog now indicates Version 0.10.3 : Closes Bug #74963
   * French language support added

 -- Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) <wattazoum@gmail.com>  Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:08:29 +0200

2006

sbackup (0.10.3-0.1) unstable; urgency=high

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * remove /usr/etc. Closes: #399762

 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>  Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:23:27 +0000

sbackup (0.10.3) unstable; urgency=high

   * Fix an Ubuntu-izm that creeped into the permissions (Closes: #391539)

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:55:10 +0100

sbackup (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=high

   * "Simple fixes for simple but annoying bugs" release - intended to go
     into Etch and Edgy.
   * Manage /etc/sbackup.conf and /etc/cron.d/sbackup as config files, but
     not as conffiles, to remove unneeded "config changes upstream" prompt
     on upgrade. SBackup can handle old config gracefuly.
   * Brown paperbag one-liner fix on incremental backup time not being counted
     properly causing incremental backups to be done all the time.
   * Reduce nice level of sbackupd process to lowest possible priority (+19)
   * An empty regex matches everything, so avoid those

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:55:10 +0100

sbackup (0.10-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added i18n support from Jonh Wendell
   * Added Portuguese translation by Jonh Wendell
   * Adjusts in Makefile, support to uninstall and another prefix,
     rather than /usr (SF:1376603) - wendell
   * fix problem with spaces in target dir (SF:1508991) - wendell
   * Add command-line option parsing support from Andreas Sliwka
   * Improve parsing of cron timelines with added custom option
     (Ubuntu: #5720)
   * Separate filenames in metadata with NULL instead of a newline
     (Closes: #349700)
   * Critical pseydofilesystems are explicitly excluded (Closes: #340115)
   * Command line tar is used and is trying to be robust agaist race
     conditions (Closes: #328824)
   * Ability to edit filenames, paths and regexp directly in the cells - wendell
   * Purge old backup snapshots in smart and simple way (Yay!)
   * Really test the writability of a directory by writing into it.
     Solves several permission related errors, especially in remote backups.
   * Improved restore window interface - wendell
   * Rewriten restore backend fixes bugs while restoring files beyond 2Gb
     limit and speeds up the restore 2-3 times

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:55:10 +0100

2005

sbackup (0.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * document all the TODOs and plans
   * backup all files if maxsize=-1 (SF:1324065)
   * fixed many bugs with the root directory enabled for backup
   * fixed an exception with remote target testing (Closes: #329341)
   * secure backup permissions - now all files are 0600 (Ubuntu: #3177)
   * also rename remote directories to get rid of ":" in filename
   * upgrade backup directories before each backup run

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Sun, 20 Nov 2005 04:14:23 +0300

sbackup (0.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix binary paths in .menu entries to sbin (Closes: #324781)
   * Use "." instead of ":" in all directory names (Closes: #325431)
   * Fix a bug with first item of file format exclusion list (Closes: #325426)

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:14:23 +0300

sbackup (0.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Also fix the config applet to work in sarge
   * Move the restore icon to System->Administration menu too
   * First upload to Debian unstable :)

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Aug 2005 00:14:23 +0300

sbackup (0.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix and reenable remote restore. It is still heal of a slow, but it works
   * Add empty directories to a full backup
   * Stop using pythons tarfile module on backup
   * Interface to systems 'tar' tool - double speedup, 10 times less memory used
   * Reduce memory usage by factor of 3 on restore and restore GUI
   * target directories are checked for validity, so interrupted backup no longer
     breaks other backups
   * Cache all files locally on remote backup - gnomevfs is very slow on small updates
   * A new tool added to upgrade backup directory formats
   * Gnome Restore tool now automatically asks to upgrade old backup directories

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:01:23 +0300

sbackup (0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added the restore GUI: simple-restore-gnome
   * Added the command-line: srestore.py (Also a python module for restoring)
   * Only backup directories if there are files inside
   * Minimize usage of /tree file (planned for removal, with compartibility)
   * Usability adjustments to the config gui
   * Improved configuration defaults
   * Improved backup algorithm - now only folders with changes are included in
     the backup archive
   * NOTE: remote restore is not supported in this version

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Aug 2005 20:21:20 +0300

sbackup (0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Adjustments to Gnome capplets Target tab
   * Write username to cron.d file (was breaking automatic backups)

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Sun, 8 Aug 2005 20:00:00 +0300

sbackup (0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial release

 -- Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>  Sun, 7 Aug 2005 20:01:33 +0300