[Box Backup] 0.07PLUS4 test

Ben Summers boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:48:43 +0100


On 23 Sep 2004, at 12:22, J=E9r=F4me Schell wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just put my hands in v0.07PLUS4 of boxbackup.
> Seems to work OK.
> As usual I made Debian package for it. If you're interrested just=20
> point you sources.list to :
>
> For Woody/stable :
> deb http://debian.taonix.org stable main
>
> For testing/Sarge :
> deb http://debian.taonix.org/ testing main
>
> Note that for woody you will need to install libssl 0.9.7 to be able=20=

> to install boxbackup, see for example on :
> deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/misc/
>
> Then you can :
> apt-get install boxbackup-client
> or
> apt-get install boxbackup-server
> or
> apt-get install boxbackup-utils (just the certificate authority=20
> management script)

Thanks!

But I'm afraid I've now disabled access to the 0.07PLUS4 release as=20
0.08 is out. Sorry about that.

>
> I can just see a little problem with the generated bbackupd.conf file.=20=

> In the comment for BackupLocations, it is said to put a regexp like=20
> that:
> ExcludeFilesRegex =3D *.(mp3|MP3)$
>
> But this is not working on my Debian system (I get a (1/31) - Common=20=

> BadRegularExpression error)
> I had to replace it by :
> ExcludeFilesRegex =3D \.(mp3|MP3)$
> to make it work.
> Can anybody confirm this is Ok?

The format of the regular expressions will depend on what is provided=20
by your platform, so yes, it could certainly be different on Debian.

>
> Thanks Ben for your great work ;)

My pleasure.

Ben