Development

This page is an outline of where the LBackup project is heading.

It would be a good idea to organize a ticket system to track feature requests and bugs. This and other development issues are discussed on the developer page and on the mailing lists.

Below are a list of new features which have been requested.

• Option for full / partial file transfers.
• Option for enabling / disabled compression.
• Option for overriding the RSync version strict checking.
  • Version 0.9.8q2 supports a basic implementation
• Option for enabling in-progress locking, to prevent more than one instance of a backup to running simultaneously.
  • LBackup version 0.9.8r-alpha-7 introduces basic implementation for backup locking
• Option for specifying the email 'from' address.
  • Finally completed in 0.9.8r2-alpha8
• Option for enabling SSH email.
• Option to allow default RSync version to run on OS X
  • Version 0.9.8q2 supports a basic implementation
• Option supporting backup client pre and post scripts.
• Tools to aid in locating files for restoration
  • The lcd command introduced in version 0.9.8r-alpha-4 is the first step.
  • More tools to scan forward and backwards in directories for changes.
• A LBackup configuration file creation script which prompts you for various information.

• Pre-Rotation backup set integrity checks.
  • Basic implementation introduced in version 0.9.8r3-alpha1
• Secondary checksum system.
  • There are now plans to build in support for Fingerprint to provide integrity checking of each backup.

• There is a page dedicated to the discussion of improved FileVault integration