# This is the full fwbackups changelog, with detailed listing of changes between
# various versions dating all the way back from the very beginning.
|| Version 1.43.4 changes ||
* Sun Dec 19 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a problem were upgrading to 1.43.3 could cause the crontab to be
removed if the backup administrator tool is not run before the next
scheduled backup
- Better handling of Unicode strings when running on HFS+ filesystems and
Windows XP
- Fix a problem where paths could be left out of the backup when using
the tar.bz2 backup engine
|| Version 1.43.3 changes ||
* Sun Dec 5 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a crash that occured when compression was enabled while configuring a
one-time backup
- Correct the crontab cleaning algorithm to work with full paths (as we do
with PyCron on Windows)
- When running under Windows, append "pythonmodules" to the system path
so run/runonce can import paramiko correctly
- Do not import fcntl unless we are running under *nix
* Tue Nov 30 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Further fixes regarding string encoding; fixes backup sets with diacritics
and/or special characters in their names
- Use mkstemp to create temporary package list files for better Python 2.4
compatability
* Sun Nov 28 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Encode strings with the appropriate encoding when dealing with the OS
filesystem or shell processes; fixes bug when backing up paths with
special characters in them
- Fix a bug that would occur when importing old set configurations
- Fix a problem where list files where not backed up when using a remote destination
|| Version 1.43.3rc6 changes ||
* Thu Oct 28 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Update documentation for 1.43.3rc6
* Sat Oct 18 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a multi-user conflict where several backups could attempt to create
the package list file(s) simultaneously, causing one of the two backups to
fail
- Fixed a bug that prevented fwbackups from importing pre-1.43.2beta3
configuration files
- Offer to initialize a new configuration file if the existing one does not
pass validation
* Sat Oct 9 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a problem where excessive stderr output in subprocesses would cause
fwbackups to hang. The file currently being backed up can no longer be
displayed.
* Sat Oct 2 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a bug where subdirectories could not be created in a direct copy
backup to a remote host over SFTP
- Fix a traceback when opening the restore window and the set destination
could not be found
* Mon Sep 27 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Re-enable use of AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT. Leaving it out causes problems on
CentOS
* Thu Aug 5 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Make manual time selection easier to use
* Fri Jul 9 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Do not attempt to parse and generate the text for crontab entries already
in the crontab, allowing fwbackups to preserve formatting, spacing,
comments and variables such as " HOME=/foobar # foobar spaces"
- Backup the crontab before making any modifications and restore the
original in the event of an error
- Add a signature to crontab entries generated by fwbackups, enabling
the cleaner to distinguish between generated entries and fwbackups-run
entries added by the user
- Add a timer when saving the crontab, killing the crontab process after 6
seconds of waiting; fwbackups no longer hangs when the crontab cannot be
saved due to an error in the manual times entry
* Wed Jul 7 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a problem where all tokens values would be wrapped in square brackets
(for example [successful] would return [1] instead of 1)
- Touch po/Makefile before running autoreconf in autogen.sh
* Tue Jul 6 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Ensure that the after command runs even upon backup failure
- Fix minor bugs regarding logging and reporting of backup progress when
performing Direct Copy backups to a remote destination
- Display tracebacks at log level ERROR instead of DEBUG when an error
occurs during a backup or restore
- Add a "[successful]" backup token
- Fix a problem where a Direcy Copy backup with a remote destination or any
Windows backup would silently pass over paths with single quotes in the
file or directory name
- Rename "Include subfolders" backup option to "Recursive" due to the name
"Include subfolders" being misleading with regards to its actual effect.
- Fix a problem that may have cause fwbackups to crash on startup if using a
language other than English
|| Version 1.43.3rc5 changes ||
* Thu Jul 1 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Happy Canada day!
- Update documentation, start using Publican publishing tool
- Display popups for some errors instead of showing a statusbar notification
* Thu Jun 24 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a bug where no world read permissions on /etc/crontab would cause a
crash on startup
* Tue Jun 22 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Make the backup options tab much easier to use by reworking the engine
selection
- Run the "before command" prior to the preparation and cleanup steps (fixes
RH #604682)
- Make the port selection a spinbutton (forces numeric entry only)
- Implement tokens (string replacements) for the user-specified before/after
backup commands
* Sat Apr 24 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a bug where the sensitivity of the incremental checkbutton was
incorrectly set when configuring a new backup set
* Thu Apr 22 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a regression where calling "fwbackups --help" resulted in a traceback
- Change behaviour of "--verbosity" option, making it print log messages to
the console. A second use of "--verbosity" will enable debug messages
(the previous behaviour of this option) as well as printing log messages
to the console.
* Wed Apr 21 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- HIG changes: Make all dialogs use application icon, better primary texts,
make info/confirm/warning/error dialogs have no title
* Sun Apr 18 2010 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix crash when resetting "don't show me" messages in preferences (fixes
RH #579143)
- Make .desktop files confirm to latest Freedesktop standards
* Tue Dec 22 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a bug where the Preferences configuration file's version was not
bumped past 1.43.3rc2
* Sun Aug 30 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Actually fix bug on Ubuntu which caused writing package lists to fail
(aka __init__.py vs __init__.py.in copy/paste forgetfulness)
|| Version 1.43.3rc4 changes ||
* Sat Aug 22 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Revert fwbackups python package installation to site-packages (fixes RH
#518690)
- Show a message in the GUI statusbar whenever the crontab is regenerated
now that a one second wait has been added each time the crontab is written
* Fri Aug 21 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a bug on Ubuntu which caused crontab writing to fail
- Fix a bug on Ubuntu which caused writing package lists to fail
* Fri Aug 14 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Disable tray options completely gtk.StatusIcon is not available, or in
other words for any PyGTK version below 2.10.
|| Version 1.43.3rc3 changes ||
* Mon Aug 3 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Implement basic support for restore from remote folders
- Add interactive testbench 'test.operations.py' which tests every type of
backup and restore operation
- Security fix: Change permissions on the fwbackups user directory to 700
to prevent unauthorized access to stored passwords
* Sun Aug 2 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a problem where set configurations from version 1.43.2beta2 were not
imported correctly
- Rewrite portions of the configuration classes in config.py to make them
faster and more flexible
- Deprecate const.ConvertPath() in favor of os.path.join()
- Minor UI bugfixes/enhancements
- Show current file when backup up using tar with or without compression
- Fix a problem where remote restores may have failed to start
* Thu Jul 30 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Remove the names only package lists
- Fix a problem where generating package lists on systems with the dpkg
package manager caused backup jobs to stall
* Wed Jul 29 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Remove the __raiseOnException property from runFuncAsThread() and instead
offer a universal way of accessing thread exception information
- Fix a problem where paramiko threads were left alive on exit, preventing
the program from terminating
- Fix a probem where the autostart function would not work if fwbackups was
not configured with --prefix=/usr
- Use intltool instead of glib gettext for translations
* Mon Jul 27 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Tweaks to better support non-/usr/share install locations
- Import most things after bug reporting system is initialized in order to
display dependency errors graphically
- Better cleanup when running "make uninstall"
* Thu Jul 23 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a problem which caused one-time backups to fail
|| Version 1.43.3rc2 changes ||
* Thu May 28 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a problem where paths ending in an apostrophe could be cause an
error while running backup operations
- Fix arguments to sftp.put in backup.py so that the backup filename does
not have basename() run twice on it
- Fix a problem where outputting a list of installed packages on systems
using Pacman or RPM would cause a backup to fail
* Wed May 27 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Properly disable incremental option in UI for one-time backups
- Add a status property to better handle operation progress updates
* Mon May 25 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- When applicable, check if pywin32 is installed
* Tue May 18 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a problem where old backups on remote hosts were not removed
- Upload files directly to remote host if rsync engine is used
* Mon May 17 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Properly detect folder/file over SFTP
- Enable thread error handling: "retval == None" instead of isAlive()
* Tue May 12 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Replace all instances of /usr/share with INSTALL_DIR
- Fix problem where selecting a destination folder, then switching to remote
host as a destination could cause the backup to fail
* Thu Apr 23 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix problem which occurred if /etc/crontab does not exist (RH #496830)
* Wed Apr 15 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Do not use "finally:" in order to restore Python 2.4 compatibility
- Do not statically declare application icon location in Linux
* Mon Mar 30 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Use require a connection object instead of creatin a new connection each
time a function from remote.py is called
* Fri Mar 27 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Initial support for Apple OS X
- Correct docstrings + other style improvements
- Split apart backend.py into operations/*.py
- Use tempdir module to determine where to store temporary files
- Do not remove a destination folder if it exists while preparing for an
operation
- Reduce number of branches in fwlogger.logmsg()
- Update winprocess.py and subprocess_killable.py
- fwbackups-runonce.py: --exclude can be supplied multiple times to specify
multiple patterns rather than supplying them all at once
- Fix a bug where clearing the log would result in an error
|| Version 1.43.3rc1 changes ||
* Sun Mar 22 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Escape quotations in crontab (Red Hat #491469)
- Restore feedback & cancel support (Red Hat #491472)
- Fix a problem where the main window would hide if operations were
running and the user chose to keep running fwbackups
* Sat Mar 7 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Support restoring from sets with remote destinations
- Obscure saved passwords in configuration files
- Do not permit restoring from remote folders; not implemented yet
* Fri Mar 6 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix a problem where createPkgLists would stop a backup if a package
manager was found many times in $PATH (Red Hat #489034)
- Add support for remote (SSH) archives as a restore sources and fix
traceback (Red Hat #489040)
- Launch Web documentation for the installed version, not most recent
- Fix a problem where temporary archives were saved to the incorrect
location while using the "Remote (SSH)" backup destination
* Sat Feb 28 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Rework some of the autotools buildsystem
* Wed Jan 14 2009 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Interface improvements: Better compliance to Gnome HIG
- Catch configuration file downgrades and display and error
|| Version 1.43.2 changes ||
* Wed Oct 1 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix traceback on Linux when destination folder includes a single quote
- Package lists and disk information are no longer excluded from backups
- Don't fail when chmod on final backup archive fails (ie, NTFS)
* Fri Aug 22 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [backend] enabled == '0', not 0
* Thu Aug 7 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Don't bug when saving log file
* Tue Jul 22 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Do not generate cron job for temporary_config
* Sat Jul 19 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [backend] Include hour and minute in backup name
- Close export dialog when clicking Cancel
|| Version 1.43.2rc3 changes ||
* Fri Jul 18 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [backend] Don't attempt to create a directory that exists
- [runapp] Don't hide the self.ui.backupset after clicking "Browse"
- [runapp] Reset restore defaults when clicking "Restore Set" button
* Tue Jul 15 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Clean up code a bit
- New set of documentation
- Always hide "temporairy_config"
- Set all windows transient for main
* Tue Jul 15 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [backend] fix errors with the rsync backend
* Sat Jun 22 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [config] fix _import() functions for older versions (case sensitivity)
* Sun Jun 8 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- backupset window is transient of main again
- fix traceback when restoring backups
- mustExist=True when checking permissions on destination paths
- [shutil_modded] Don't fail when errors occured in a copy
- [restore] Add support for remote archives, not folders
|| Version 1.43.2rc2 changes ||
* Sat May 31 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [win32] Use installation directory as fwbackups home
- Incremental backups supported for local backups on Linux
- Do not log paramiko output as debug
- Improve and fix the transferF{ile,older} functions
- [nsis] Do not delete $INSTDIR, but remove specific files
* Thu May 22 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Regenerate the crontab after changing a set instead of searching for
old line (which was buggy)
- Specify path to python.exe for pycron
- Fix import and duplicate functions
* Wed May 21 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Some last-minute fixes before release
- [config] Don't forget some releases, fixes _import() on some old versions
- Fix SystemError when right-clicking tray icon
* Mon May 12 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [runonce] Use absolute filenames
- [runonce] Add options for remote destination
- [runonce] Fix multiple tracebacks
- [run,runonce] Print full traceback in case of error
- [backend] Authenticate on remote server before copying files
- [fwlogger] Fix error when calling printToo
* Thu May 1 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [config] Set StartMinimized and MinimizeTrayClose if upgrading from
1.43.2beta3, not 1.43.1!
* Sun Apr 27 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Correct path in bin/fwbackups.in to reflect the actual --prefix
|| Version 1.43.2rc1 changes ||
* Sat Apr 12 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [backend] Support SFTP/SSH transfer of folders
- [config] Use General.version if General.Version fails upon _import()
- [config] Don't capitalize options upon every _import()
- [prefs] Make the pycron browse button work
- [win*] Update to libxml2 v2.6.30
- [win*] Update to libglade v2.6.2
- Fix destination folder on the restore of a local folder
- Switch logging levels online
- Use __file__ rather than os.getcwd() to determine installation location
- Use 644 permissions for help files
* Fri Apr 11 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [backend] Major logic fixes, should fix many win* platform bugs
- [backend] Add support for the pacman and dpkg package managers
- [win*] Use absolute paths where applicable
- [win*] Fix annoying scrollbars on tray icon menu
- Implement a GUI bug reporting system
* Thu Apr 10 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [runapp] Fix bug which prevented file upload when using remote (ssh)
- [remote] Make testConnection() work on win*
- [backend] Add support tar.bz2 backend
- Reduce table spacing from 6 to 4 pixels
- Allow .tgz file extension
* Wed Mar 26 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix error message on one-time backup
* Tue Mar 20 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Major code cleanup
- Move {callbacks,actions.py} into runapp.py
- Remove some unused constants, add ROOTPATH in Windows
- Implement threading for network operations
- Make ConvertPath() more portable
- Make logger more versatile, don't initialize twice
- Configuration is now case-sensitive
|| Version 1.43.2beta3 changes ||
* Sun Mar 16 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [NSIS] Add Lite installer
- [NSIS] Update requirement package versions
- [NSIS] Bugfixes
- Don't hang when paramiko is not available
* Fri Mar 7 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Add --start-minimized argument to start in tray
- [prefs] Add ability to start on login
- [prefs] Add ability to minimize to tray upon close
- [prefs] Add ability to always start minimized
- Fix bug where the tray icon and preferences checkboxes were inconsistent
- Don't copy the fwbackups.desktop file to /usr/share/fwbackups
- Fix runapp.py so that it loads the libglade dll when run from anywhere
- Fix up const.py to get some more reasonable values
* Sun Mar 2 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [win*] Don't show CLI window when running (.py --> .pyw)
- [win*] Don't assume fwbackups is installed in C:\!
- [NSIS] Detect and uninstall old version of fwbackups
- [NSIS] PyCron marked as (Required)
- [NSIS] Install start menu shortcuts system-wide
- configure.ac uses beta3 in version name
- Fix bug in _import for configuration files
- Don't attempt to use notify-python when we can't import it
- Make the crontab editor compatible with dcron (used by Arch Linux)
- Use the fwbackups icon in Windows
- Update .spec file
* Thu Jan 17 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- [NSIS] Create shortcuts with fwbackups icon
- [NSIS] Remove old version of fwbackups prior to installing new version
- Add "Check for Updates" feature
- Warn when paramiko cannot be found in Windows
- Detect win64
- Update .spec file
- Attempt to autodetect a PyCron installation
|| Version 1.43.2beta2 changes ||
* Sat Jan 12 2008 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- NSIS functional installer
- Fix bug relating to backups including special characters in Windows
- Change backend mechanism to support many backend compression schemes
|| Version 1.43.2beta1 changes ||
* Sat Oct 27 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Use automake instead of hand-crafted Makefiles
- Stablize, make ready for beta1
- Reorganize file structure
- Restore mostly works
* Sat Aug 25 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- uninstall.sh should remove the help files, too!
- escape single-quote in filenames so bash doesn't blow up
- Oops! tar.gz single file shouldn't be in the main loop.
* Fri Aug 24 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Use gobject.idle_add() in the log so that we don't have thread conflicts
* Thu Aug 23 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Bugfix (don't kill PID 0, aka ourself when clicking cancel)
- Run cancel upon errors just to make sure the other thread exits
- Reimplement the whole 'operation in progress' thing
- Lock the UI properly when editing a set or starting an operation
- Don't literally togglelock the UI, that can get out of hand. Use true,
false.
* Mon Aug 20 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Support in backend.py for remote operations and rsync in case of win32
* Tue Aug 14 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Implement remote server configuration in GUI (cont'd)
- remote.py for remote operations
* Thu Aug 9 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Implement remote server configuration in GUI
* Tue Aug 7 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Progress bar on startup!
- Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes
* Mon Aug 6 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Change the GUI widget names in the code
- Rewrite a harder, better, faster, stronger cron.py
- Fix the bugs caused by such a rewrite
- Fix a bug where the crontab would be overwritten
- Move many dialogs from gtk.dialogs to gtk.window
- Add more options to task icon, make entries clearer... 'Hide' doesn't
work to well.
* Thu Aug 2 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Initial win32 support
- Added more "if/elif/else" clauses for specific win32 limitations or
needed workarounds
- Abandon server/client streaming extension, too complex and waste of time.
Besides, disk space comes cheap these days ;)
- Completely recode backend
* Wed Aug 1 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Name GUI widgets properly
- Start setting up comboboxes to switch table and new labels
- Try out server/client streaming extension for archives
- Make dialogs standard-compliant
* Sat Jul 28 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Clean up code, standard naming convension in glade file
(added the CONVENSIONS file as a reminder)
- Add SSH support for backup and restore
- Make interface more HIG compliant
|| Version 1.43.1 changes ||
* Thu Jul 22 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Sparse should actually change something in backend.py
- Add "follow links" feature
- Add copyright notice about gnome-icon-theme
- Tray icon's checkbox should change when the window hides
- Fix a bug where using tar.gz would result in the backup archiving itself
- Remove mimetype from .desktop for now
* Thu Jul 21 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- The restore desination should still have a permissions check
- Sparse shouldn't be always insensitive
- Fix that damn move-mouse-progressbar-lags bug!
* Thu Jul 19 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- main fwbackups window can be hidden via tray icon
* Wed Jul 18 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- I thought making these stupid mistakes was over... Automatic backup in
1.43.0 didn't work. At all :/ (fix %(d)s bug)
- Add documentation... Those Help buttons should do something!
|| Version 1.43.0 changes ||
* Sun Jul 8 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- .pot needs to include fwbackups-run(once)
- Fix fwbackups-runonce so that it doesn't always double-loop paths
- Don't wait 5 seconds in between subprocess return checks. Something more
instant, like 0.01 is nice.
- Non-recursive backups should actually work without the need of the GUI
to add a massive list of files (aka, make dir/* work)
- More debug messages
* Sat Jul 7 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Add new options (sparse, exclude, etc) upon import
- Fix up changelog dates to use RPM style
- Use a non-stock icon!
* Tue Jul 3 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Makefile fixes (DESTDIR problems)
- fwbackups now has preferences
- Add a working tray icon with pynotify notifications to boot
- Add an AUTHORS file
* Sat Jun 23 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Fix the uninstall script and ask for root if not root
* Thu Jun 21 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Niceness is -20 to 19, not -19 to 19
|| Version 1.43.0rc3 changes ||
* Tue Jun 19 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Make PrintToo obey the set level, too
- Complete fwbackups-runonce
- Fix argument handling of fwbackups-run (-v is an argument, not a set
name!)
- Check for bad number of arguments in all callable scripts
* Mon Jun 18 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Let's implement the new GUI options into .conf's and the backend
- Niceness control!
* Sat May 29 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- More options in GUI (Exclude paths, sparse files)
- Don't check for permissions on root (/)
|| Version 1.43.0rc2 changes ||
* Sat May 12 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Make menu entry for "Backup Set Now" work
- Clean up after 1.42.x versions (remove entry in /etc/crontab)
- Add DnD support
- Listen to fdisk's stderr, too
- rsync engine now uses relative paths as tar and tar.gz does
|| Version 1.43.0rc1 changes ||
* Mon May 7 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Test & Fix various Restore features
- Fix GUI locking (again... *sigh*)
- If it's not a supported archive, bail out in backend
- Regen .pot
* Thu May 3 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Move to a Makefile
- Generate pot file ready for translation
- Add a basic fwbackups-runonce
* Tue May 1 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Progress in the UI now works
- Fix double-while GTK bug so you don't have to click to refresh things
* Fri Apr 26 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Start using dates like this
- Check permission on restore destination upon administrator startup
- Fix About dialog version (had to do with __init__.py)
- Save current version when converting from older config files so it try
doesn't to import over and over and over again.
- Fix import/export dialogs, they didn't show up at first
- Rewrite backend to be more effecient
* Mon Apr 30 2007 Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>
- Don't tar then gzip. tar cfz instead.
- Add more debug messages
- Date comes first in log now
- Cancel actually cancels right away!
|| Version 1.43.0beta3 changes ||
- Don't allow selection of menu items when it's not allowed (eg, when the
interface is locked or no set is selected)
- Fxied sveeral seplling erorrs ;)
|| Version 1.43.0beta2 changes ||
- Keep old backups properly.
- Minor bugfixes
- String changes
|| Version 1.43.0beta1 changes ||
- New UI, partially Gnome HIG 2.0 compliant
- Permission checks!
- More error-redunant, shows and logs all errors
- Threading!
- Archive, compressed archive support
- Backups sets
- Userspace log
- "Errors in log label" for failed backup notification
- Browse buttons for paths
- More effecient coding
- Cancelling a restore or backup works now.
|| Version 1.42.2 changes ||
- Copy doc files when using install.sh
- Don't freeze on nonregular files.
|| Version 1.42.1 changes ||
- Fix the copyright messages: Some stated FWaudio-convert-mod, and some used
caps in the name which is now all lowercase.
- Moved the defaults configuration file to /usr/share/fwbackups
|| Version 1.42 changes ||
- 'backupconfigure' command renamed to 'fwbackups'
- 'runbackup' command renamed to 'fwbackups-run'
- Changed rsync backend to internal python's shutil, more portable & rsync
was providing no speed increase
- Re-coded all callbacks for better portability, functionality and they also
now leave more room for future expansion
- Added better comments to python sources
- Now using 100% Glade for the GUI part
- Added 'On The Spot' backup feature (on-demand backups)
- Added 'Keep X old backups' feature
- Added additional time selectors for cron: minute, day(s) of week and
month(s).
- Changed the name to all lowercase (from 'FWBackups' to 'fwbackups')
|| Version 1.41 changes ||
- Implemented rsync as a backend.
|| Version 1.4 changes ||
- First relatively stable release.
