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Remote restore fixed. Full planned funct…

Remote restore fixed. Full planned functionality reached.All that I planned to do for Simple Backup is done as of version 0.7.Now I only need to wait for the evaluation from my mentors at Ubuntu and to fix all bugs they and all other users find I also did a bit of refactoring in this release [...]

Ok, now the 0.5 release of my Simple Bac…

Ok, now the 0.5 release of my Simple Backup suite can now actually restore something from your backups! (both command-line and Gnome interfaces) It now even does automatic backups (and not just claims that it does). It even doesn’t store empty folders in the backup. Oh and some usability fixes are also thrown in for [...]

0.3 release of SBackup :)

This week was a productive for me, but I did run into some unexpectedtechnical difficulities and thus had to work throught the weekend tocatch up. I just did the 0.3 release on freashmeat and sourceforge. Progress checklist:* backend daemon – ok* GUI configurator – ok* commandline restore – 50% (need to write a directory extractionfunction [...]

Still writing a restore tool :(

Still writing a restore tool Last two hours were spent debugging an interesting problem with TreeView in PyGTK. It was too slow to parse and add all files from a backup snapshot to the tree view at once (not to mention that it took 35 Mb of RAM ), so I decided to load the [...]

Simple Backup Solution 0.1 is out !

Simple Backup Solution 0.1 is out ! With this simple and humble name my SoC project has met the first milestone – I have a fully functioning backend for my backup solution. The GUI is to be done next week. You can get see the spec here, get the 0.1.1 version here and monitor all [...]

The python-gnome2 bindings for gnomevfs …

The python-gnome2 bindings for gnomevfs are completely undocumented I so wish i could kick that developer in the^W^W^W^W^W donate small amount of money to have it fixed.

Currently I am very busy writing my Summ…

Currently I am very busy writing my Summer of Code project. You can see my plan on the Ubuntu wiki: http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/SimpleBackupSolution and follow my progress in my bazaar-ng repository.I must say that bazaar-ng is a simple as subversion and as powerful as arch, but as complete as current Xorg package for Ubuntu unstable (aka breezy) [...]

Introduction to Web Services for Remote Portlets

Introduction to Web Services for Remote Portlets Untill now Service Oriented Arhitecture, UDDI or WSDL have been only buzzwords to me. Imagine a web portal – this blog, for example. There small modules on the right showing few last blog items, favorite links and other stuff. These can be called ‘portlets’ (portal applets). If wanted [...]