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KBackup Version 1.2.3 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Jan 17 17:34:50 1996
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:11:47 +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 1.2.3 released
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.apps
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Version 1.2.3 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-1.2.3.tar.gz
It is also available from:
ftp://ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/local/soft/KBackup-1.2.3.tar.gz
And from the KBackup Homepage.
For more details see the KBackup Homepage, including a hypertext version
of the complete manual:
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Karsten.Ballueder/
CHANGES:
this version is mainly a maintenance release, fixing some bugs, making th=
e
code more stable, more portable, less dependent on GNU tools
really new features are:
- automatic detection of the right device for tape operation
- check for tape drive compatibility
- directory requester is now sorted
Karsten Ball=FCder <Karsten.Ballueder@@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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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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