[Box Backup] 0.06PLUS2 verdict

[Ben Summers]

Thanks for the all the testing and comments.

I'm going to make a few minor changes (including allowing "-c" for 
daemons), test on all platforms, and then release it as 0.07.

I am aware that there are issues with the bbackupd daemon not 
terminating properly in response to signals. It was designed to work on 
servers which were never switched off, but it's very much apparent that 
people are using it on computers which are frequently turned off. 
Unfortunately, the design doesn't really support clean terminating 
while it is connected, as I didn't think it was necessary.

I will make these changes, but would prefer not to do so just before a 
release as it touches a lot of code to do it properly. I don't like 
doing things badly. Since 0.06PLUS2 includes useful changes and fixes, 
especially compilation on SuSE 9.x, I'd like to get it out ASAP.

In the meantime, you can safely shut down bbackupd with a script which 
does

1) Send normal termination signal
2) Waits 5 seconds
3) Sends a -9 signal if the daemon is still active.

I suspect I will also implement serialisation of the in-memory state to 
disc, so you can switch the machine off and not lose state, or indeed 
run bbackupd as a cron job.

Anyway, thanks for all the testing and support, your help is invaluable.

Ben