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03-26-2K
Fixed a bug that prevented directory's with blank spaces in the name to be included in the archive...
Did some cosmetic improvements here and there..
03-25-2K
sitback will never be X avare...
I was getting strange I/O Errors at various occations, and there never seemed to be a real explanation for them.. Until i, by shear accident, read in a README belonging to another application, that Xlib was not thread safe. I one wants to use LinuxThreads in an X program, Xlib must be rebuild with -DREENTRANT..
I dont se neither myself or any other user, rebuilding Xlib, just to be able to get a little more fancy interface for Sitback, and i do not want to skip the threads. So all X code has been removed...
Anyway, i have another project in mind which should be 100% X, so i spare the fun for that application....
Next version is still some day's away, but check back next week..

03-19-2K
Fixed a bug relating to archive verification after archive update.. Released stable version 0.1.20.
Fix included in 0.2.0pre2, wich also has slight improvements to the X11 code..

03-17-2K
Code seems to be stable in 0.1.19
Development continues with the 0.2.x versions.. Primary goal is to finish code for restore operation...

03-15-2K
Version 0.1.19 released. Fixed two critical bugs.
Introduced options for using bzip2, gzip or compres for compression.

03-12-2K
Version 0.1.18 released. Unless a fatal bug is discovered, this is the last 0.1.x version.. And I consider 0.1.18 to be stable (backup)

03-10-2K
Version 0.1.17 released. Fixed a non-fatal but introduced by a previous bugfix. (how funny!!, hrmpf.!).
If no more surprises surfaces, this will be the next stable version. And (knock. knock.) the last 0.1.x version. It is time to continue adding new operation-modes to the app.

03-09-2K
Version 0.1.16 released. Fixed a non-fatal but annoying bug wich, off course, did not show up until 0.1.15 was released..

03-09-2K
Version 0.1.15 released. Solved problems with multiple volume backup. Fixed several fatal bugs, and even more non-fatal bugs..
Core code has now been tested for more than a month (each night, 7 day's a week) on scsi tapes, magnetic tapes and disk without serious problems.

03-03-2K
Version 0.1.14 released. First version that uses ncurses for a better looking user interface..
Small internal improvements and increased cross-platform compatibility.

03-01-2K
Version 0.1.13 released. This version fixes a bug that could hang the init script while starting sitback as a daemon.. In the end, this could freeze the entire system while initializing. All that uses pre 0.1.13 should upgrade, or make sure there init-script does not hang...

02-28-2K
Version 0.1.12 released. Added retry counter to allow 1-9 retry's on a backup operation if the tapedrive is buggy and fails for no reason. Also removed the '-v', verbose, option, since sitback in any non-daemon mode will be verbose (using X or curses)

02-24-2K
Version 0.1.11 released. Fixed noncritical but annoying bug that would take the total size of the previous backup and add it to the size of the current backup, only relevant for daemons.. wich would report double, tripple, etc. total size for each run.

02-23-2K
Version 0.1.10 released. Mainly update of error-reporting to the backup-report..
Backup seems to have stabilized, no more features is intended and sitback has performed well on 3 different systems.. This is most likely the last 0.1.x version. Now it is time to get List operation implemented. This will use ncurses, but small internal changes, mainly to the code-structure is required so that a X11 version of sitback can be added sometime in the future. The X11 version must use the same operation code as the term. version, only the interface is different. (Well, daemon-mode backup operation will not be available in the X11 version, only single-mode backup)

02-21-2K
Version 0.1.9 released. Timeout handling has improved. A daemon is no longer terminated on timeout-errors.
The code seems to be stable now, test-drives on SCSI and Magnetic tape drives seems to have no problems. This goes for disk-based backup also...
Please do note that the placement of the scripts has changed in 0.1.8 and 0.1.9. See the manual for further details.

02-20-2K
Version 0.1.8 released. Many internal changes and improvements..
Magnetic tapes are erased and retensioned, and non-rewinding tapes (magnetic and scsi) are rewinded when required
Relocated the log-file to the sitback basedirectory, also included the html-documentation (these webpages) in the installed files.
Process handling is now much improved, the risk of zombie processes is reduced.

02-15-2K
Version 0.1.7 released. Only small cosmetic changes, no need to upgrade from 0.1.6.

02-14-2K
Version 0.1.6 ready. fixed some small problems. Magnetic tapes are now erased and retensioned before creating a new backup (not an update).

 


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