KBackup 0.5.2

Martin Koller m.koller at surfeu.at
Wed Aug 15 13:46:54 CEST 2007


Name: KBackup
Version: 0.5.2
Type: KDE Archiving/Backup
Depend: KDE 3.x
License: GPL
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=44998

Description:
 KBackup is a program that lets you back up any
directories or files, whereby it uses an easy to
use directory tree to select the things to back
up.

The program was designed to be very simple in its
use so that it can be used by non-computer
experts.

The storage format is the well known TAR format,
whereby the data is still stored in compressed
format (bzip2 or gzip).

The backup can be put onto a local directory
(mounted device, etc.) but also on a remote URL
(thanks to KDE KIO).

It also includes a german, french,  italian,
slovak, portuguese, swedish and russian
translation for the user interface and an english,
french and german handbook.

NOTE: there is a bug in kdelibs -
which only hurts if you compile from source
against kdelibs which where compiled with debug
info - 
which leads to a crash with the following output:
KTar: KTar::openArchive
kbackup: ktar.cpp:659: void
KTar::fillBuffer(char*, const char*, int, long 
int, char, const char*, const char*): Assertion
`strlen(mode) == 6' failed.

I fixed this in kdelibs for 3.5.5

Currently either not use kdelibs (

Changelog:
 15.Aug 2007 (0.5.2)
Finally I release a minor update to kbackup. Here
is the ChangeLog:
- start with the HOME folder opened
- add a profile option to avoid media change
dialog
- add a profile option to avoid compressing files
at all
- Whenever a directory is only partly included,
show it with blue color
- Show a dialog when the backup has finished
- automatically save/restore window size
- add "auto" commandline option to automatically
start a backup and quit kbackup when done.
- added predefined slice sizes (for CDs, DVDs) in
profile settings dialog
- added portuguese translation thanks to Carlos
Gonçalves

21.Dec 2006:
Thanks to Carlos Gonçalves kbackup is now in the
openSuse KDE:/Community project.
kbackup is therefore now available for openSUSE
10.2 and Factory, SUSE 10.1, 10.0 and SLE10
http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE:/Community/

1.Oct 2006: (0.5.1)
- added "recent files" action
- added profile setting to define a maximum slice
size
- store recent directory for file dialog

29.Sept 2006:
KBackup is now included in the Fedora 5 branch.
Fedora users just have to do "yum install kbackup"
as root.
- added french handbook

24.Sept 2006: 0.5 released
- added systray functionality
- added profile setting to define file-prefix
- added slovak GUI translation (thanks to Jozef
Riha)
- fixed Umlaut encoding for directories

21.Sept 2006:
- added fedora RPMs (thanks to Alain PORTAL)

16.Sept 2006:
- added russian translation (thanks to Alexey
Kouznetsov)
- added italian translation (thanks to Andrea
Sciucca)

3.Sept 2006:
- added german handbook
- added french GUI translation (thanks to Régis
FLORET)
- added missing "unlimited" translation string
- added the RPM .spec file
- added missing .mo translation files into RPM


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