Cedar Backup v2.9.0 Released

[Kenneth Pronovici <kenneth.pronovici@cedar-solutions.com>]

Cedar Backup v2.9.0 has been released.  There are no major functional
changes in this release.  There are several bug fixes, and I have
added support for Linux 2.6 direct-to-device writer configuration
(i.e. specifying dev=/dev/cdrw rather than dev=ATA:1,0,0 when
calling cdrecord).

To use the new direct-to-device writer functionality, configure only
<target_device> and not <target_scsi_id> in the <store> configuration
section.  The configured device will then be used for all operations.
This functionality can be expected to work in Linux 2.6 and newer
kernels.

Thanks to Dmitry Rutsky for submitting a number of bug reports including
patches, and for helping debug several of the problems I fixed.  This
release should also address the issue that Alejandro Weinstein reported
to the list recently.

Here is the official changelog entry:

Version 2.9.0  18 Dec 2006

   * Change mbox extension to use ISO-8601 date format when calling grepmail.
   * Fix error-handling in generateTarfile() when target dir is missing.
   * Tweak pycheckrc to find fewer expected errors (from standard library).
   * Fix Debian bug #403546 by supporting more CD writer configurations.
     - Be looser with SCSI "methods" allowed in valid SCSI id (update regex)
     - Make <store> config section's <target_scsi_id> parameter optional
     - Change CdWriter to support "hardware id" as either SCSI id or device
     - Implement cdrecord commands in terms of hardware id instead of SCSI id
     - Add documentation in writer.py to discuss how we talk to hardware
     - Rework user manual's discussion of how to configure SCSI devices
   * Update Cedar Backup user manual.
     - Re-order setup procedures to modify cron at end (Debian #403662)
     - Fix minor typos and misspellings (Debian #403448 among others)
     - Add discussion about proper ordering of extension actions

You can get the latest Python source package from this URL:

   http://cedar-solutions.com/ftp/software/CedarBackup2-2.9.0.tar.gz

You can get the latest Debian package from the Cedar Solutions APT
source, or from this URL:

   http://cedar-solutions.com/ftp/debian/dists/etch/binary-i386/admin/cedar-backup2/cedar-backup2_2.9.0-1_all.deb

Users of the Debian 'unstable' distribution can also install the latest
Debian package from their favorite Debian mirror.  

Note: I do not expect v2.9.0 to make it into Debian 'etch', since the
general freeze occurred on December 11.  The version in 'etch' will be
v2.8.1 from September.

Please write the list or file a bug in Bugzilla if you notice any
problems with this release.

KEN

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Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org>
http://www.cedar-solutions.com/


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