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SBackup revitalising – I18N

The development of SBackup was very stale for most of this year, mostly because many of the bug/feature that user were requesting required a significant rewrite of the codebase and at the same time I saw how messy the code has become over time. A few people came up and offered some help, but out [...]

Help needed for Simple Backup development.

I have long understood that to make a good free software project, having multiple authors/contributors is essential. To that end, while I am fixing bugs and writing a few new features into the main SBackup codebase (see Changelog), I am inviting new people to contribute to SBackup development.Many users have a need for an essential [...]

Just finished recovering from a cold tha…

Just finished recovering from a cold that I got on New Years eve while taking a bunch of pictures. Sadly, the one on the right is the best Also just finished writing a summary of what I want to have completed/fixed before the 1.0 release of SBackup. ~20 entries. Of them at least 3 are [...]

Sky burn

Sky burn One more day without taking a shot, but with a bit of productivity While on the topic of photography, I must say – if you work with photos in Linux, use UFRaw and that other thing. The other thing doesn’t even have a preview when converting, but the UFRaw can autodetect a white [...]

Low fireworks & sbackup

Low fireworks The photo is from yesterday, but it is still new for most of you so the photo-a-day is still going strong for me Today was spend in a very productive fashion – bugfixing. I had a lot of feedback for SBackup over last couple of months – it was time to fix some [...]

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 [...]