[Box Backup-commit] COMMIT r2026 - box/boxbackup-web

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:53:21 +0000 (UTC)

Author: chris
Date: 2008-01-12 01:53:21 +0000 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008)
New Revision: 2026

Modified:
   box/boxbackup-web/index.html
Log:
Start documenting the new release, 0.11rc1, and updating minor things.


Modified: box/boxbackup-web/index.html
===================================================================

--- box/boxbackup-web/index.html	2008-01-12 01:27:05 UTC (rev 2025)
+++ box/boxbackup-web/index.html	2008-01-12 01:53:21 UTC (rev 2026)
@@ -114,34 +114,37 @@
 and clients with both server and client side certificates. Scripts are provided to generate and
 manage these certificates.</p>
 
-<p>Stored files are encrypted using AES for file data and Blowfish for metadata. This does mean that the one thing you do need to
-back up off-site and look after is a 1k file containing your keys -- the data on the server is useless
-without it. But it never changes, so that's OK.</p>
+<p>Stored files are encrypted using AES for file data and Blowfish for
+metadata. This does mean that the one thing you do need to back up
+off-site and look after is a 1k file containing your keys -- the data
+on the server is useless without it. But it never changes, so that's OK.</p>
 
 <h2>Platforms</h2>
 
-<p>I develop under Darwin and deploy on OpenBSD. The software is designed to take advantage of BSD features
-where useful, but not to rely on them. It should be easily portable to other UNIX like operating
+<p>We develop and deploy on Linux, Darwin, Windows and OpenBSD. The software
+is designed to take advantage of BSD features where useful, but not to rely
+on them. It should be easily portable to other UNIX like operating
 systems. Ports are available for the following platforms:</p>
 <ul>
 <li><b>OpenBSD</b> (primary platform)
-<li><b>Linux</b>
+<li><b>Linux</b> (primary platform)
 <li><b>NetBSD</b> (minor issues with dates on symlinks)
 <li><b>FreeBSD</b>
 <li><b>Darwin</b> / Mac OS X 10.5
-<li><b>Cygwin (Windows)</b> (client only)
-<li><b>Native Windows</b> (client only, not complete)
+<li><b>Native Windows</b> (client only)
 <li><b>Solaris</b>
 </ul>
 <p>On these platforms, the software compiles and the tests pass. I do all my deployment on OpenBSD, but I know of
 several people who have had good results under Linux.</p>
 
-<p>More platforms will arrive over time. It takes in general a couple of hours to get it compiling on a BSD-like
-UNIX, and a bit longer on something like Linux which deviates from the BSD way of doing things.</p>
+<p>More platforms will arrive over time. It takes in general a couple of
+hours to get it compiling on a BSD-like UNIX or Linux, and a bit longer on
+something like Solaris.</p>
 
-<p>I welcome patches for other platforms, and volunteers to look after ports for a particular platform.
-Programmers notes describing how everything works are included
-in the <tt>notes</tt> directory within the distribution archive.</p>
+<p>We welcome patches for other platforms, and volunteers to look after
+ports for a particular platform. Programmers notes describing how
+everything works are included in the <tt>notes</tt> directory within
+the distribution archive.</p>
 
 <h2>Related projects</h2>
 
@@ -152,22 +155,51 @@
 
 <h2>Download</h2>
 
-<p>Source only distribution. See documentation on this web site for compilation and installation notes.
-See <tt>notes</tt> directory inside distribution archive for programmers notes.</p>
+<p>Both source and binary distributions are available.</p>
 
-<p><tt><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boxbackup/boxbackup-0.10.tgz?download">boxbackup-0.10.tgz</a></tt> (823k, MD5=2dc02d87932fdb222ed019443ddcf444, released 23 February 2006)<br>
-(download via SourceForge)</p>
+<h3>Source Code</h3>
 
-<!--<p><tt><a href="bin/boxbackup-0.04.tgz">boxbackup-0.04.tgz</a></tt> (417k, released 16 Mar 2004)</p>-->
+<p>See <a href="/trac/wiki/Installation">our Wiki</a> for the latest
+compilation and installation instructions.</p>
 
+<ul>
+	<!--<li><tt><a href="/svn/box/packages/boxbackup-0.11rc1.tgz">boxbackup-0.11rc1.tgz</a></tt>
+	(740k, MD5=75608d8bb72dff9a556850ccd0ae8cb9, released 12 January 2008, 
+	local download, 
+	<a href="/svn/box/packages/boxbackup-0.11rc1.tgz.asc">signature</a>)
+	</li>-->
+	<li><tt><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boxbackup/boxbackup-0.10.tgz?download">boxbackup-0.10.tgz</a></tt>
+	(823k, MD5=2dc02d87932fdb222ed019443ddcf444, released 23 February 2006,
+	download via SourceForge)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Code Signatures</h3>
+
+<p>New releases are signed by <a href="mailto:gpgkey@qwirx.com">Chris Wilson
+(gpgkey@qwirx.com)</a>.
+<a href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD847F866">Download
+the key</a> or fetch with:</p>
+
+<pre>
+gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu D847F866
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Upgrading</h3>
+
 <p><a href="006-007.html">Notes on upgrading from 0.06 to 0.07</a>,
 <a href="005-006.html">0.05 to 0.06</a>,
 <a href="004-005.html">0.04 to 0.05</a></p>
 
-<p><b>A 0.10 or later server requires all clients to be version 0.10 or later too.</b> Existing backup store accounts
-are compatible with 0.10, and do not require conversion.</p>
+<p><b>A 0.10 or later server requires all clients to be version 0.10 or
+later too.</b> Existing backup store accounts are compatible with 0.10,
+and do not require conversion.</p>
 
-<p><b>Changes:</b></p>
+<p>0.11 is fully backwards compatible with 0.10 except that corrupt large
+files (over 2GB compressed) should be deleted from the store and
+uploaded again.</p>
+
+<h3>Changes</h3>
+
 <dl>
 <dt>0.10 (23 February 2006)
 <dd>Optimised diffing algorithm -- massive speed improvements<br>
@@ -299,4 +331,4 @@
 </div>
 </div>
 </body>
-</html>
\ No newline at end of file
+</html>


