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KBackup V. 1.2.5 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Jan 26 20:13:59 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:53:22 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Karsten Ballueder <karsten@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: KBackup V. 1.2.5 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 1.2.5 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 software compression and double buffering
- automatic handling of multi-volume archives, =
detects end of tape
- quick archive directory access
- automatic detection of archive format and option settings
- optional public key encryption using pgp(1)
- support for high capacity floppy formats
- scheduled operation at a later time or regularly
- full or incremental backups
- extensive manual and documentation
- high portability to other platforms
- automatic detection of the right tape device to use
- ....many many more
WHERE?
KBackup will soon appear at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/Backup/KBackup-1.2.5.tar.gz
It is also available from:
ftp://ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/local/soft/KBackup-1.2.5.tar.gz
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 all known bugs, =
making the code more stable, more portable and less dependent on GNU =
tools. It fixes the bugs still found in 1.23 through 1.2.4 .
The support for block devices (e.g. ZIPdrive, Floppies) has been improved=
=2E
Options for report generation and automatic verify. =
Karsten Ball=FCder <mailto:Karsten.Ballueder@@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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