| 1 | Pybackpack - A simple file backup tool |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | What is Pybackpack? |
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| 5 | ------------------- |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | Pybackpack is a graphical application designed to make file backup easy for the |
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| 8 | average user. It allows the user to specify named sets of files and directories |
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| 9 | to be be backed up so that the backups can be run many times. Where possible |
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| 10 | Pybackpack does incremental backups; it is a graphical front-end to |
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| 11 | rdiff-backup. Pybackpack can backup files to remote locations over the network, |
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| 12 | local file systems, and optical media such as writable CDs or DVDs. |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | What is Pybackpack not? |
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| 15 | ----------------------- |
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| 17 | It is not for backing up entire systems. Running Pybackpack as root is not |
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| 18 | recommended. It does not create encrypted backups or backup special files |
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| 19 | (device nodes, sockets, FIFOs). |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | History |
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| 22 | ------- |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | Dave Arter created Pybackpack for Fedora Core as a Google Summer of Code |
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| 25 | project in 2005. Since August 2006 it has been maintained by Andrew Price. |
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| 26 | Swansea University Computer Society has kindly provided project hosting for it |
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| 27 | since the beginning. For a more detailed feature history see the CHANGELOG |
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| 28 | file. |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | Reporting Bugs |
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| 31 | -------------- |
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| 33 | If you are using a Pybackpack package packaged for your operating system |
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| 34 | distribution (e.g. from the Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora package repositories) then |
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| 35 | use the bug reporting systems for that distribution (e.g. Launchpad, BTS, or |
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| 36 | Bugzilla). |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | If you are using an original tarball or svn version of Pybackpack, open a new |
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| 39 | ticket on the Trac instance: |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | http://projects.sucs.org/projects/pybackpack#Bugs |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | Or the mailing list: |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | http://lists.sucs.org/mailman/listinfo/pybackpack |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | In all cases please provide the version of Pybackpack you are using and as much |
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| 48 | detail about the bug as you can. |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | Patches and testing |
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| 51 | ------------------- |
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| 53 | All patches should be against the latest trunk code in the subversion |
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| 54 | repository. For more details: |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | http://projects.sucs.org/projects/pybackpack#DevelopTest |
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| 58 | Localization |
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| 59 | ------------- |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | For information about translating Pybackpack to your own language: |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | http://projects.sucs.org/projects/pybackpack/wiki/TranslationGuide |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | License |
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| 66 | ------- |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | Pybackpack is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the |
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| 69 | terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software |
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| 70 | Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later |
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| 71 | version. |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY |
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| 74 | WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A |
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| 75 | PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the LICENSE file for more details. |
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