RFS: vbackup
Hello there,
My name is Stefanos Harhalakis and I'm a sysadmin at TEI of Thessaloniki,
Greece. I'm looking for a sponsor for a program of mine (I've also created
the debian package). This is a new package:
Name: vbackup
License: GPLv2. May be changed to GPLv3.
Version: 0.1.4
Author: Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@v13.gr> (that's me)
URL: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~v13/vbackup/
ITP: 458340
deb:
http://hydra.it.teithe.gr/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-all/admin/vbackup_0.1.4-2_all.deb
vbackup is a modular backup program. It is a set of scripts that can perform
full or incremental system backups. Currently it supports:
* Filesystem backups using tar
* XFS backups using xfsdump
* PostgreSQL backups
* MySQL backups
* dpkg package list backups
and can be easily extended to do other things.
I'm using parts of this program to backup some of our systems for the last
2+ years. The program is developed by me and I'm developing it for our needs
(currently, it is going to backup 8 systems). I've already packaged it and
created a mini repository to ease the installation on those systems (7 of
them are running debian). Since I'm the original author of the program and
I'm depending on debian packages for using this program in our systems, I
believe that this package will not become easily unmaintained.
The reason I've created vbackup and I'm seeking for debian inclusion is that
I believe that there is no similar backup program available. vbackup is
opensource, very simple to setup, very easy to extend and it is shell script
based.
The package almost passes the lintian check and fully passes the linda
check. There is a problem with the rules file because there are commands
listed in arch-binary instead of arch-indep (the package is for architecture:
all) but I'm not 100% sure about how to correctly correct this. There is also
a (I believe) bogus warning that lintian reports:
W: vbackup source: binary-arch-rules-but-pkg-is-arch-indep
W: vbackup source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.2 (current is 3.7.3)
I could not register vbackup with the sponsors.debian.net site. I've created
the ITP (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458340) using
reportbug but the site keep saying:
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Connecting to bugs database... done
Searching database... done
Some errors occured:
ITP/ITA number 458340 doesn't have the phrase "ITP: vbackup" or "ITA: vbackup"
in the title
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while the ITP bug report actually has this in the title. Any suggestions with
that?
Best regards,
Stefanos Harhalakis
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