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

Follow the release notes:

• Added the Synbak Server Hostname to the email report subject
• More robust smb/cifs mount procedure
• Failback to cifs mount if the current kernel doesn't support smbfs protocol
• Some minor bug fixes

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

Follow the release notes:

• Fixed a bug in the tar and tape backup verify
• Fixed a bug in the tar and tape total size and speed calculation
• Renamed the cdrw method to laserdisc
• Some fixes in the the laserdisc method (tested against Fedora Core 5 mkisofs and cdrecord commands)
• Added the "backup_exclude" option to laserdisc method

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

Follow the release notes:

• New backup method: oracle. Now via oracle's "exp" command is possible to make a full dump of local or remote oracle database servers
• Added a new informational field to ASCII detailed report: synbak server hostname
• Fixed a bug in the MySQL local method
• Using a better way to manage temp directory on old systems
• Many fix in the cifs/smb mount and remote host checks

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

Follow the release notes:

• Now each backup step has an error.log and stats.log file created in the temp dir
• Some minor bug fixes

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

Follow the release notes:

• The rsync over SMB/CIFS protocol now should works better (improved the remote host check and mount functions)
• Many code cleanups

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

Follow the release notes:

• Show Synbak version in the title of html reports
• Added some useful comments to example.conf file
• Added a new config directive. backup_no_make_destdir
  useful if you don't want create automatically the destination backupdir.
  this always assume backup_incremental=no and is useful on rsync backup only

• Now tar method can produce flat tar archives without compression

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