sbackup 0.11.4
Milestone information
- Project:
- sbackup
- Series:
- 0.11
- Version:
- 0.11.4
- Released:
- Registrant:
- Jean-Peer Lorenz
- Release registered:
- Active:
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- Assignees:
- 12 Jean-Peer Lorenz
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- Bugs:
- 15 Fix Released
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Release notes
I'm proud to announce the fourth bugfix release 0.11.4 of the 0.11 series of
the Simple Backup suite.
Thanks to all who contributed to this release with coding, sending
patches, testing, reporting bugs and translating!
This release in particular fixes:
* [Fix] LP: #714916 Unhandled error in gio backend when looking up
* [Fix] LP: #662613 sbackup crashes with 'NonValidOption
* [Fix] LP: #709338 Restore/revert of non-toplevel items produces only
* [Fix] LP: #689016 Uncaught error 'invalid literal for int() when
* [Fix] LP: #697386 RemoteMountFail
* [Fix] LP: #697654 No desktop session found: no notification icon:
* [Fix] LP: #701403 Unable to use remote target without giving a password:
* [Fix] LP: #588578 Email notification/
* [Fix] LP: #706037 Email reports not working; enable debug output
* [Fix] LP: #683990 Uncaught 'NoSectionError' when adding report settings
* [Fix] LP: #695613 Empty notification popup due to invalid markup
* [Fix] LP: #671785 Parsing remote URIs fails when username or password
contains special characters; quote special characters
to comply with RFC 1738 sec. 3.1
* [Fix] LP: #675361 Restore process fails with error 'is not a file' while
* [Fix] LP: #696183 Failed to set GID to `admin`; improved handling of
* refer to dependent packages 'gconf2', 'desktop-
* translations updated
* translations added: fo
See the changelog on the download page for more information.
Known issues - There are a few known issues in SBackup 0.11.x:
* when upgrading snapshots in old Simple Backup format (1.4 and older) it is
not recommended to use these as base for successive snapshots. Make a full
snapshot instead.
* specified log directories are not modified when using former nssbackup
configurations. This might lead to directories named `.../nssbackup`.
* in order to use secure remote targets (SFTP, SSH via GIO) you'll have to
add the remote machine to your trusted machines first
(see https:/
* due to default security settings it is not possible to create backups at
remote destinations which are split into several chunks when running as
superuser (root) using the GIO backend
* No Help available on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (due to use of Mallard)
* if you want to install sbackup from source code after you've had
it already installed from PPA, you'll need to *Purge* the package (i.e.
remove package and configuration files, not only remove) to avoid
confusion of your packaging software about configuration files in
system directories (namely /etc/dbus-
Have fun.