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BackupMonitor: important bugfix

Posted on by Thibauld

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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.

BackupMonitor: improvements

Posted on by Thibauld

Icône de Backup Monitor

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.

Update (bis)

Posted on by Thibauld

I’ve just made avaiable a new version of my backup monitoring scripts. This scripts will remind you regularly that your data needs to be backed up (default one month after the latest backup) and also help you in doing so (requiring very few intervention on your behalf except maybe two or three clicks at most).

I’ve also updated the Ephyblog plugin to Epiphany so that they work after the API change that happened in version 2.22.

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Sauvegardes des données

Posted on by Thibauld

Depuis que j’ai commencé à faire de la photo, la question de la sauvegarde des données que j’ai sur mon ordinateur s’est (à nouveau) posée. Tout le monde sait bien (ou devrait savoir) qu’un disque dur ça peut claquer à n’importe quel moment et sans sauvegarde, cela peut faire très mal.

Du coup, j’ai toiletté un petit peu des anciens scripts que j’avais composé à partir de bout de fichiers récupérés ça et là, pour obtenir au final un système tout bête qui se rappelle à ma place de quand est-ce qu’il est temps de faire une sauvegarde et se charge aussi tout seul de la réaliser.

Le tout marche avec des techno relativement anciennes1, et marche essentiellement sous Linux2. Pour ceux que ça intéresse, il y a ici, une petite page pour tout expliquer.

Sur ce, je vais pouvoir me remettre à engranger un max de photo en toute tranquilité :)

  1. ça va de rsync+bash à dbus+galago [↩]
  2. sans doute aussi très partiellement sous Mac [↩]