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KBackup Version 1.2 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Dec 1 23:47:06 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 18:40:20 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: ubh2@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Karsten Ballueder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: KBackup Version 1.2 released
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Summary: Announcement for KBackup backup system version 1.2
Keywords: backup KBackup tar afio
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
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Version 1.2 of the KBackup backup system for UNIX has been released.
WHAT?
KBackup is a powerful yet user-friendy backup system.
Among the many features included are:
- support for tapes, floppies and removable hard disks
- really user-friendly menu-controlled operation
- afio or tar format =
- optional compression
- quick tape archive directory access
- automatic detection of archive format and option settings
- double buffering for tapes
- support for high capacity floppy formats
- optional public key encryption using pgp(1)
- automatic handling of multi-volume archives, detects end of tape
- scheduled operation at a later time or regularly
- full or incremental backups
- extensive manual and documentation
- high portability to other platforms
- ....many many more
WHERE?
KBackup will soon appear on sunsite.unc.edu, in the /pub/Linux/system/Bac=
kup
directory. The archive file is called KBackup-1.2.tgz . Uploading it ther=
e
proves to be difficult at the moment, so for now, you can already find it=
at:
ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de /pub/linux/local/soft
For more details see the KBackup Homepage, including a hypertext version
of the complete manual:
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Karsten.Ballueder
CHANGES =
against version 1.2:
First of all, ALL REPORTED BUGS HAVE BEEN FIXED. I have also
detected and removed lots of bugs, that no-one had found yet.
The new MultiBuf program is now being used to handle multi-volume
archives reliably and fully automatically. Can even support
tape changers.
Added support for "mountable block devices", like removable hard
disks or just floppy disks. MUCH better than normal floppy support.
Improved Verify operation. Cleaned up menu structure. Rewrote Manual,
created FAQ, created KBackup Homepage,....
many many more...
Karsten Ball=FCder <Karsten.Ballueder@@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Appended is the LSM entry:
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Title: KBackup - Karsten's Backup System
Version: 1.2
Entered-date: Aug 12 1995
Description: KBackup is a powerful backup program for handling backups=
,
which supports tapes, floppy drives and removable hard drives, =
different archive formats, compression types, public-key encryption,
double buffering, automatic archive type detection, and
many other useful features -- all wrapped up in a simple to use =
menu interface.
See http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Karsten.Ballueder for more info.
Keywords: backup, tar, afio, encryption, tape, disk, floppy
Author: karsten.ballueder@@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de (Karsten Ball=FC=
der)
Maintained-by: karsten.ballueder@@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de (Karsten Ball=FC=
der)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/linux/system/Backup
369015 KBackup-1.2.tgz
Copying-policy: GPL =
End
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Karsten Ballueder +++ eMail karsten.ballueder@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Eppinger Strasse 52
76131 Karlsruhe / Germany
(+49) (0)7 21 / 62 28 43
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Karsten.Ballueder
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