luckyBackup 0.1.2 & 0.2.pre1

[Loukas Avgeriou]

Name: luckyBackup
Version: 0.1.2 & 0.2.pre1
Type: KDE Archiving/Backup
Depend: Qt 4.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=94391

Description:
 ... a powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync
tool
luckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or
synchronizes any directories with the power of
rsync.

The advantage over similar applications is (apart
from its simple interface) its ability to keep
your data safe by checking all declared
directories before proceeding in any data
manipulation.

[b]features[/b]

[b]1. Backup[/b]

[b]Stop avoiding backing-up. You now have no
excuses !![/b]

Create a "clone" of your data at another location
in no time, safely.

Backup any directory (source) to another
(destination).

luckyBackup copies over only the changes you've
made to the source directory and nothing more.
You will be surprised when your huge source is
backed up in seconds (after the first time !!).

Whatever changes you make to the source iclude
adding, moving, deleting, modifing files /
directories etc, will have the same effect to the
destination.

Owner, group, time stamps, links and permissions
of files are preserved.

[b]2. Sync[/b]
Sync any directories keeping the files that were
most recently modified on both of them.

Useful if you modify files on more than one PCs
(using a flash-drive and don't want to bother
remembering what did you use last.

[b]3. Keep your data safe[/b]
luckyBackup first checks if the directories you've
declared exist or if they are empty and warns you
accordingly.

You wouldn't want your 500GB music collection
backup (that took half a day to create !!) vanish
in a second if you forgot to mount the external
drive that your source is in !!
You also wouldn't want to execute an rsync command
if your destination folder is in an external drive
that you also forgot to mount.

[b]4. dry-run option[/b]
If you unsure of the effects on your data when
executing an rsync command try the dry-run option.
luckyBackup will perform a trial run that doesn't
make any changes (and produces mostly the same
output as a real run).
Note: The progressbar might be misleading when
using this.

[b]5. Profiles[/b]
You don't have to enter the directories names from
the beginning, every time you start luckyBackup.
You can save your preferences in a .profile file
and load it whenever needed. Use as many profiles
as you like.

[b]6. logfile[/b]
After each operation a logfile is created in your
home folder. You can have a look at it any time
you want.

[b]7. Inlude option[/b]
A seperate checkbox can be used to include or not
the operations that have been declared.


Changelog:
 Version 0.2 (testing):
-Completely changed gui
-Added support for infinite number of operations
for each profile
-Added command line support
-Added support for scheduling of certain profiles
execution via cron
-Added support for remote connections
-Added SSH support for remote connections
-Added option to restore an operation
-Added option to remove/add any rsync option
-Added support for certain files, folders or
patterns tranfer only (Only Include) & not whole
directory
-Added support to exclude the tranfer of certain
files, folders or patterns from an operation
-Added option to actually see the rsync command to
be executed
-Improved checks to protect user from doing stuff
that he/she shoudn't
-Added simple/advanced mode for every type of user
;-)

Version 0.1.2 :

-Help dialog fix
-Added man page
-Fixed menu links

Version 0.1.1 :

-Fixed bug when user declares 2 or more identical
destination directories (or uses the master backup
directory for 2 or more tasks) and only the last
task would be performed
-Added manual in html format
-Added licence files
-Added readme files
-Added new logo :-)
-Minor gui improvements

Version 0.1 :

Initial release