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Bugfix release for stable 0.11 series available

Written for sbackup by Jean-Peer Lorenz on 2013-09-17

I'm proud to announce the bugfix release 0.11.6 of the 0.11 series of
the Simple Backup suite.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release with coding, sending
patches, testing, reporting bugs and translating!

This release fixes in particular:

  * Add XFCE4 to list of supported desktop environments to enable status
    indicator on xfce4
  * [Fix] LP: #1174124 Catch invalid path selections to avoid TypeErrors
    when coercing to Unicode. Replace FileChooserButton with text entry
    to avoid problems when selecting destination paths.
  * [Fix] LP: #1159705 set default setting for log level as string, not as
    integer in order to fix a KeyError if no log level is defined in config
    file. Also make sure, a string is processed when setting GUI widgets
    using the log level value.
  * [Fix] LP: #1190224 Restore behaviour of GioOperations.path_exists.
    This caused a regression which let the backup fail.
  * merge fix for bug 632605. Thanks to Mascha
  * merge from trunk: add french desktop entry
  * fix internal helper tool script

See the changelog on the download page for more information.

Bugfix release for stable 0.11 series available

Written for sbackup by Jean-Peer Lorenz on 2013-01-21

I'm happy to announce the fifth bugfix release 0.11.5 of the 0.11 series of
the sbackup suite.

This release in particular contains:

* bug fixes
 * [Fix] LP: #1000171 make it backwards compatible because upgrade-backups
       is incredibly slow and not reliable:
       added restore utility which provides legacy support
       using the 0.10.5 algorithm. Command must be
       executed from terminal: 'sbackup-legacy-restore
       BACKUP_PATH FILE_OR_DIR_TO_RESTORE [TARGET_DIR]'
       or for more ease of use with GTK gui:
       'sbackup-legacy-restore --gui'.
 * [Fix] LP: #1097465 Regular expressions defined in default configuration
       can be improved:
       -do not exclude specific types of files e.g. mp3, avi
       -fix regex for .gvfs, trash, cache etc. so these apply
        to 'top-level' directories
       -add a default regex for lock directories
        (e.g. $HOME/.mozilla/lock)
       -add a default regex for $HOME/.cache directory
 * [Fix] LP: #785512 Backup files are not protect from local user access:
      make the snapshot directories RWX only by owner
      (existing snapshots are not affected by this fix).
 * [Fix] LP: #330680 fails if target path contains #:
      fixed by not allowing fragments when parsing target
      path and using quote/unquote to escape # properly
      (FIXME: this fix does not cover target paths containing
      special chars ; or ?)
 * [Fix] LP: #980786 Don't complain about non-accessable excluded files:
      order of checks when inspecting file system revised. It
      is now first checked whether a file is excluded before
      it is actually accessed.
      Thanks for Bernd Wurst for the suggestion.
 * [Fix] LP: #670646 sbackup-gtk crashes while starting: invalid literal
      for int():
      ignore ValueError from urlparse when parsing port
 * [Fix] LP: #888367 TypeError: argument of type 'int' is not iterable:
      Try to fix type error by not using interpolation when
      getting items From ConfigParser.
 * [Fix] LP: #173490 Pre/Post backup script hooks:
      applied patch suggested by Derek Ditch
 * [Fix] LP: #918099 System menu names should include 'admin' or similar:
      applied patch suggested by Anton (feenstra)
 * [Fix] LP: #875634 sbackup's tar very slow due to erroneous backup size
      calculation:
      Sometimes the calculation of the space required goes
      badly wrong and we could end-up With _checkp=1 for
      30GB to save, making tar VERY slow.
      Fixed by setting minimum value to 100. Thanks to
      Thibault Godouet for the patch.
 * [Fix] LP: #768080 incremental snapshots store more files than needed:
                     add TAR option '--no-check-device'. Thanks to
                     Rogach (platon7pronko) and Felix Griewald (tiiunder)
                     for the patch.

* remove 'backup upgrade' feature and 'rebase snapshot' feature since it
  is not reliable and can cause severe user data loss and added restore
  utility which provides legacy support using the 0.10.5 algorithm.
  Command must be executed from terminal:
  'sbackup-legacy-restore BACKUP_PATH FILE_OR_DIR_TO_RESTORE [TARGET_DIR]'
  or for more ease of use with GTK gui:
  'sbackup-legacy-restore --gui'.

* Pre/Post backup script hooks:
  I've applied patch suggested by Derek Ditch and added this feature to
  sbackup series 0.11 (sorry for the delay...)

  It is completely optional. To use it, please add following options to your configuration file:
  ...
  [hooks]
  pre-backup = <path to pre-backup script>
  post-backup = <path to pre-backup script>
  ...
  You only need to specify scripts that should run, just leave it out if not
  required! Please note, the script must be executable (chmod +x) and will be
  run with same privileges as your backup process. So, be careful!

* improved regular expressions defined in default configuration
  -do not exclude specific types of files e.g. mp3, avi
  -fix regex for .gvfs, trash, cache etc. so these apply
   to 'top-level' directories
  -add a default regex for lock directories
   (e.g. $HOME/.mozilla/lock)
  -add a default regex for $HOME/.cache directory

* translations updated

See the changelog on the download page for more information.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release with coding, sending patches, testing, reporting bugs and translating!

Series 0.11.x finally replaces the old-fashioned Simple Backup 0.10.5 with code that was developed in (Not So) Simple Backup in the meantime. It adds some very interesting features and is ready for daily use.

PPA updated with sbackup 0.11.4

Written for sbackup by Jean-Peer Lorenz on 2011-02-16

Our PPA now provides packages of sbackup 0.11.4 for Karmic, Lucid and Maverick.

Bugfix release for stable 0.11 series available

Written for sbackup by Jean-Peer Lorenz on 2011-02-13

I'm proud to announce the fourth bugfix release 0.11.4 of the 0.11 series of the Simple Backup suite.

This release in particular fixes:
  * [Fix] LP: #714916 Unhandled error in gio backend when looking up
                      verbose error message
  * [Fix] LP: #662613 sbackup crashes with 'NonValidOptionException'
  * [Fix] LP: #709338 Restore/revert of non-toplevel items produces only
                      empty folders
  * [Fix] LP: #689016 Uncaught error 'invalid literal for int() when
                      processing invalid configuration files
  * [Fix] LP: #697386 RemoteMountFailedError 'Max. number of password inputs
                      reached' not handled properly
  * [Fix] LP: #697654 No desktop session found: no notification icon:
  * [Fix] LP: #701403 Unable to use remote target without giving a password:
  * [Fix] LP: #588578 Email notification/reporting doesn't work with GMAIL
  * [Fix] LP: #706037 Email reports not working; enable debug output
                      for sending mail
  * [Fix] LP: #683990 Uncaught 'NoSectionError' when adding report settings
                      (SMTP server etc.)
  * [Fix] LP: #695613 Empty notification popup due to invalid markup
  * [Fix] LP: #671785 Parsing remote URIs fails when username or password
         contains special characters; quote special characters
         to comply with RFC 1738 sec. 3.1
  * [Fix] LP: #675361 Restore process fails with error 'is not a file' while
                      copying
  * [Fix] LP: #696183 Failed to set GID to `admin`; improved handling of
                      non-existent user groups
  * refer to dependent packages 'gconf2', 'desktop-file-utils' in install file
  * translations updated
  * translations added: fo

See the changelog on the download page for more information.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release with coding, sending patches, testing, reporting bugs and translating!

Series 0.11.x finally replaces the old-fashioned Simple Backup 0.10.5 with code that was developed in (Not So) Simple Backup in the meantime. It adds some very interesting features and is ready for daily use.