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SBackup revitalising – I18N

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

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 [...]

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Remote restore fixed. Full planned funct…

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

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 [...]

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Ok, now the 0.5 release of my Simple Bac…

Thursday, August 11, 2005

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 [...]

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0.3 release of SBackup :)

Monday, August 8, 2005

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 [...]

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I am behind my planned schedule by allmo…

Saturday, August 6, 2005

I am behind my planned schedule by allmost two days, mostly because tarfile module for Python is … not too complete, for example you can only extract files one by one It looks like I will have to implement extraction of directories myself. Of course I will send it to the tarfile upstream authors, along [...]

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Still writing a restore tool :(

Wednesday, August 3, 2005

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 [...]

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Simple Backup Solution 0.1 is out !

Sunday, July 31, 2005

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 [...]

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Currently I am very busy writing my Summ…

Thursday, July 28, 2005

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) [...]

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YAHOO!!!^W^WGOOGLE!!!

Saturday, June 25, 2005

My proposal for the Google Summer of Code was accepted. In this summer I’ll be writing http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/SimpleBackupSolution I am so hyped!

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