KBackup 0.5.4

[Martin Koller]

Name: KBackup
Version: 0.5.4
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, russian and german handbook.

You'll find all RPMs including 64bit versions for
different distributions on the openSuse build
service (links below)

NOTE:Due to a KDE3 limitation, it can only backup
files each up to 4GB in size (on 32bit platforms
at least; therefore larger files are skipped)

NOTE: there is a bug in kdelibs up to 3.5.4, 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

Changelog:
 19.Jan 2008 (0.5.4)
- correctly limit slice size:
  - limited by the target directory (when we store
directly into a local dir)
  - limited by the "tmp" dir when we create a tmp
file for later upload via KIO
  - limited by Qt3 (4GB on 32bit)
  - limited by user defined maxSliceMBs
- sort directories first in treeview
- correctly sort by size and timestamp in treeview
- check if a file that is archived into the backup
is not the backup itself


4.Jan 2008
I have extended the usage of the openSuse build
service.
Therefore I can offer now Suse, Mandriva and
Fedora RPMs including 64bit versions.

13.Oct 2007 (0.5.3)
- Add russian handbook (thanks to Alexey
Kouznetsov)
- show symbolic links with an overlayed "link"
icon
- fix handling of files larger than 2GB
- avoid crash when writing special files (below
/proc)

19.Aug 2007
- Repackaged to add spanish translation  (thanks
to Gerardo Bueno)
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

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