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A nasty bug found its way in the latest release of BackupMonitor which caused the program to suddenly exit when something went wrong during the execution of one of the backup script.

The bug has been corrected  (a problem with threads and a method call that should have been asynchronous) and the “correct” behaviour is back: when something goes wrong an error log is displayed and the program “hiberantes” until the user wakes it up.

The updated version can be downloaded from the project’s page.

A new version of backup-monitor has been released including:

• bugfix for when the locale is not defined, or when playing a little with the script’s command line options
• refactoring of the GUI to give the user more feedback and to give more hints on where to click (GUI inspired by Ubuntu’s update-manager)
• using OptionParser to ease the command line handling
• change in licence: for the GUI changes I’ve look and taken ideas from many GPL project, so it’s just fair (if not plain compulsory) to release this new version under GPLv3.

Most of these modification were motivated by the first feedbacks I got from a friend, thanks to him then ;)

For more info and download, please go here.

I’ve just written a short presentation of a set of scripts that I’ve been using for some time now, and which makes it easy for me to do regular data backups. The whole lot is now fairly easy to install and customize.

The project’s page is here. (more…)