REOBack development active again!

Nate Steffenhagen — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:37:31 -0000

REOBack development has been stagnant for almost 5 years. Andy Swanner, a Linux System Administrator (and a coding monkey :-) ) volunteered to take over administration, and development of the project as of 11/13/2006. He is currently working on implementing the items in the TODO file and more. If you have any feature requests, bug fixes, or want to contribute to this project, please contact him directly. --Randy

REOBack Development On-hold :(

Nate Steffenhagen — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 01:28:31 -0000

REOBack users, development is currently on-hold until I can get my life back :) I have been been busy the past few months with school work and had no time at all to further develop REOBack. As a matter of fact, my co-developer, Griswold, has also been busy with his Graduate school work. However, that doesn't mean REOBack is dead. The list of TODOs is growing and we plan to implement them someday. Someday, just don't know when...

REOBack 1.0r3 released!

Nate Steffenhagen — Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:04:50 -0000

This is basically a response to the numerous feature/bug reports from users like you!

Keep those feedbacks coming. :)

March 23 2002: Version 1.0 Release 3

- Fixed problem when backing up "/" (root dir).

- Fixed "rename" code to use "move" to work across filesystems.

- Fixed the directory permissions problem when restoring backups.

- Changed tar parameters from "cpfz" to "-cpzf" for compatability with
other flavors of UNIX i.e. AIX.

- Check if Net::FTP is installed when doing an FTP remote backup,
* Fixes bug 463642

- Automatically create directories from settings.conf if they do not
exist. Parent directories are created if necessary.
* First half of fix for bug 482380

- Better error checking and reporting.
* Second half of fix for bug 482380

- Removes large (>2GB) archives, even if Perl does not have large file
support. This relies on the tar command having large file support
enabled, but both the file system and the tar command have to have
large file support to create a file larger than 2GB.
* Fixes bug 521843

- Skip removing comments for FTP passwords. REOBack will now treat
everything after 'ftppasswd = ' as a password, except for leading and
trailing whitespace. For example, for the line
'ftppasswd = my##password ', REOBack will extract 'my##password'
as the FTP password.
* Fixes bug 506178

- Correctly handle the case where there are no files to skip.

- Fixed a bug with checking for the last modification time for symbolic
links.

- Perl regular expressions (wild cards) for Skip: directives. For
example, to skip all files and directories in your home directory that
start with a dot, you can use:

Skip: /home/myself/\..*

Wondering what '\..*' does? The leading backslash, '/', tells REOBack
(actually Perl) to treat the next dot, '.', as a literal dot. The
third dot tells Perl to match any character, and the asterisk, '*',
tells Perl to perform the match zero or more times.

- Suppress "Removing leading `/'" message from tar.

- Prints correct backup type.

- Prints version each time it is run.

- Creates fewer temporary files.

- General code streamlining and cleanup.

See the list of changes at:

http://reoback.penguinsoup.org/docs/CHANGES

REOBack 1.0 Release 3 Comming this weekend!

Nate Steffenhagen — Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:15:27 -0000

We are in the process of packaging the latest release of REOBACK, Release 3. This release is a response to REOBack fans out there that ran into some snags with the previous release. The fixes and enhancements are too much to list here. Just make sure to check-out the CHANGES file. Say Thanks to Richard, for working hard last week to implement these changes.

REOBack 1.0 Released (First public release)

Nate Steffenhagen — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 04:56:50 -0000

Although REOBack has been developed months ago (and been used since), this is the first public release. It is available via TAR/GZ files and RPM package.

REOBack Backup Solution (pronounced "Ray-o- back") is a simple backup solution designed for Linux users and system administrators. It is designed to be simple to set up, and easy to use. It is great as a quick solution for those who procrastinate about backups. It supports automatic full/incremental backups of files you define, remote backups via NFS or FTP, as well as auto deletion of old backups.
Read more from the documentation included in the release.

So, what are you waiting for? Grab it!

- Randy Oyarzabal (techno91)

First beta release on its way...

Nate Steffenhagen — Wed, 08 Aug 2001 21:05:22 -0000

We are currently working on the first public beta release of REOBack estimated to be released by August 19, 2001. Stay tuned!