We are pleased to announce a new release of Synbak backup system!

Follow the release notes:

• switched synbak licence from GPLv2 to GPLv3
• more synbak.spec fixes needed for fedora repository inclusion
• renamed example.conf to template.conf and moved from docs dir to synbak share dir: /usr/share/synbak/template.conf
• template.conf cleanups
• some fixes to the functions.sh file (thanks to Vitaly Ostanin)
• new backup method: dar
  now synbak can make backups using the 'dar' utility (http://dar.linux.free.fr/)
  nb. this is an initial dar support, and it's almost untested, please reports bugs

• new backup method: pgsql
  now synbak can make dumps of PostgreSQL databases
  as backup_remote_uri use "pgsql://", ex. backup_remote_uri = pgsql://postgres@localhost
  TODO: because the commands pg_dump and pg_dumpall can't manage password prompts from stdin, right now you must configure your pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf to accept connection from the user running synbak command without password prompt (i apologize for that, but this is a limitation of pg_dump)

• some fixes to mysql, oracle and ldap methods: the dumps now are compressd on the fly into bzip2 format, reducing cpu usage and processing time

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We are pleased to announce a new release of Synbak backup system!

Follow the release notes:

• Use the ISO-8601 date format into reports details
• Some fixes to the nonerrors.strings files used by method scripts to exclude non errors messages
• Some fixes to the autoconf files
• Reworked synbak spec file for inclusion into official Fedora repository, using the Fedora Packaging Guidelines

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We are pleased to announce a new major release of Synbak backup system!

Follow the release notes:

• New backup method: wget
  now you can use the wget method to make full remote mirrors or single/multiple files retrieval from ftp and http servers

• Many sanity checks and fixes to the mysql method
• Many enhancements to the appearance of html reports
• Created the synbak logo and made them the default for the new backups
• Major refactoring of html report code and css file structure, now the html reports appearance is fully customizable via the external synbak.css file, and the html pages are now fully CSS 2.0 compliant (because of this major change, you must rebuild all html indexes if you want correctly see the old reports, use this command: synbak -s system -m method -r html -R ria)
• HTML reports are now validated to the W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict standard
• Integrated the tablesort.js javascript library to the html reports, so is now possibile to do realtime sorting and reordering of the synbak reports tables. Many thanks to frequency-decoder.com by releasing this cool library (nb. the license of tablesort.js is not GPL but Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license)
• Updated the FAQ file

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We are pleased to announce a new version of Synbak backup system!

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• Almost complete mysql method rewrite with a lot of useful features: now you can use the -M switch to make splitted database dumps (each db in a separate dump file). ex. synbak -s dbserver -m mysql -M split
  however the default beaviour is always to make --all-databases dumps (all db in a single file)

• Italian translation fixes
• Added Volume Tag (BARCODE) reporting for tape media changers that support this
• Added a text string to exclude databases from oracle's backups
• Fixed the cifs umount function (thanks to Robby Pedrica)
• Cleanups in the calendar php extension (thanks to Federico Kereki)
• Removed the -S command option because it's unused right now
• Updates to the FAQ file

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Because we want run synbak out of the box on many GNU/Linux distributions as possible, please help us reporting to opensource@initzero.it your success story running synbak in your distro.

Please report also if the shipped rpm packages (from Download area) run out of the box on others rpm based distro rather than Red Hat and Fedora.

Thank you for supporting synbak development.

We are pleased to announce a new version of Synbak backup system!

Follow the release notes:

• Fixed a bug in rsync method when 'backup_no_make_destdir' option is used
• Fixed another bug in the host check function, now remote backup should be run on SuSE Linux distro also.
  explanation: the 'nc' command under SuSE is named 'netcat' and this prevent the 'host_check_port' function to works properly.
  Many thanks to Sascha Vogt and Nicolas Fischer for suggestions.

• Fixed a bug in the cifs umount function
• Updated FAQ file

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If are you using synbak on a Red Hat based distributions (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS etc...) now you will find synbak in the most famous RPM repositories available.

just run from your shell: yum install synbak

Many thanks to Dag Wieers and Dries Verachtert for supporting synbak.

DAG Repository: http://dag.wieers.com/

Dries Repository: http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/

RPMForge Repository: http://rpmforge.net/

We are pleased to announce a new version of Synbak backup system!

Follow the release notes:

• Fixed an annoying bug in the 'host port check' function used in remote backups, causing remote host check always fail.
  synbak use 'nc' command for probing remote service ports and verify if the remote host is up or down.
  On some systems nc doesn't work as expected, returning error codes even if the command line options are corrects.
  for example, in working nc installations to verify if your mysql server is up, if you run 'nc -z localhost 3306', nc must
  return a 'success' message (with return code 0). In not working nc installations nc doesn't accept this command.

• Reworked autoconf files for better portability
• Added many comments to synbak functions source files
• Some code cleanup
• Many updates to FAQ file, please read this if you want know many useful tips about synbak

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We are pleased to announce a new version of Synbak backup system!

Follow the release notes:

• Added 'Operating System Kernel Version' to backup report
• Added 'Method command options' to backup report
• Added 'Calendar View', a new and very useful feature to HTML reports (many thanks to James Van't Slot of http://www.simple-reliable.com/ for the contrib). Rebuild your html indexes to update all reports
• Updated synbak.spec for auto rpm building
• Updated FAQ

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We are pleased to announce a new version of Synbak backup system!

Follow the release notes:

• Misc graphical enanchements to html and rss reports (if you want rebuild the indexes of your HTML report directory, launch synbak with the following command: synbak -s yoursystem -m yourmethod -r html -R ria)
• Because Synbak is not arch (i386, x86_64, ppc, etc...) dependent, the methods, reports, and functions files are moved from /usr/lib/synbak to /usr/share/synbak for better compatibility on multilib systems.
  (many thanks to Dag Wieers for the suggestion)

• Now html reports can be viewed correctly on terminal based browsers (like elinks, lynx, etc...)
• Added an initial FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) text file to main synbak package

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