Autoback 1.2.0 - August 22, 2009

[Acid_1]

This is a backup application. It's very simple, and runs in the background. It's purpose is to backup your files, such as music, documents, and application settings. It's licensed under GPL2.

-- Written in python
-- Backup files to any partition/drive
-- Just run autoback-config the first time you want to use it
-- Extract the zip and run the .deb


Changelog:


1.2.0:

autoback_1.2.0_no-arch.7z

MD5Sum:
ad3b15cfc7297e007dc542088ba66c42

(2.59 KiB) Downloaded 68 times

Added a "smart" removal of old directories. Needs work but it's better than before.
Again, make sure you run autoback-config before you run it the first time.
It's really worth using over 1.0.1. It's far less likely to go awry on you.

Changes:
Easier for user to config (Labeled better)
Easier for humans to read code (Better variable names than 10 cmdstringX)


1.0.1:

abzip1.0.1.zip

Now uses nano instead of gedit.

(2.45 KiB) Downloaded 82 times

Uses nano instead of gedit for autoback-config


To-Do:

Have a PID
A GUI
Restoration feature
Have option to compress data when backing up - 1.3.0

[merlwiz79]

Is this a program you have written?

[Acid_1]

I suppose I should have mentioned that. Yes, it is a program I have written. It is completely CLI though.

[Pierre]

Make sure that you have Gedit installed - 1st.

[Acid_1]

I suppose I could change that. I hard coded the command to go "gedit /usr/lib/autoback/autoback.py" so it wouldn't workl with kedit or anything. I'll re-release with vim/nano/vi or something along those lines. I wasn't thinking lol.

[Acid_1]

New release. Worth switching up to if you ask me.

[emorrp1]

You might want to also check out persy: http://github.com/kinkerl/persy/tree/master (also available from my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~emorrp1/+archive/ppa ) It uses git, so as well as incremental compressed backups, it can also sync across multiple desktop machines. Of course it could be that these two applications serve similar, but different purposes, that is the beauty of Free software! (although you didn't mention what licence your autoback is)

[Acid_1]

Haha. In the post I forgot. Oops But in the autoback-config it say it's under GPLv2.