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flyback's Issues

License notice issues

Its a minor point, but you haven't quite used the GPL license text
correctly.  The last bit of the text (after "END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS")
tells you what to do, and should not be included.  You don't have to
include the whole of the text in the source either (again, the instructions
tell you what to do).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Nov 2007 at 10:59

Unable to backup

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Clicking on the backup button

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
To see that the backup is running. Instead I see an error message that says
"The external storage location you've specified is already in use.  Please
quit any other open instances of FlyBack (or wait for their backups to
complete) before starting a new backup." And I am sure that the backup
location is not in use.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am using 0.4 on Ubuntu gutsy gibbon


Please provide any additional information below.
This did not always happen, is just suddenly happened and I am no longer
able to backup.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 11 Dec 2007 at 3:57

make prefs delete more obvious

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start FlyBack
2. Open preferences
3. Add include directory
4. Try to delete or edit it

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Should be able to edit or delete an item, but this functionality is not
available.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 0.3

Please provide any additional information below.
This is more than a little inconvenient because I can't even edit the
settings directly as they are pickled into gconf.  

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Nov 2007 at 11:15

nice the backups

set backups to run at a nicer nice-level

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Nov 2007 at 5:48

could not parse gconf /apps/flyback/crontab - using defaults

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. changing the preferences
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
newest release. Fedora 7

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 16 Nov 2007 at 4:33

All files are open with an absolute path

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. run flyback.py from a different directory
2. get an IOError

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Nov 2007 at 9:01

exits without saying nothing

If you try to run it as root (latest version, on Linux), it will quit
without word. 

Please apply the attached patch.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Nov 2007 at 7:23

Attachments:

• flyback-patch.py

home button not working

Getting somethingsimiliar, but when pressing the "home" button:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/flyback/flyback.py", line 270, in go_home

self.xml.get_widget('location_field').set_current_folder(self.cur_dir)
AttributeError: 'gtk.Entry' object has no attribute
'set_current_folder'

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Nov 2007 at 5:52

flyback --back doesn't work without a windowing system

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Log into a terminal only
2. Run your flyback backup, e.g. flyback.py --backup
3. Get errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/flyback/flyback.py", line 72, in ?
    from backup_backend import *
  File "/usr/local/bin/flyback/backup_backend.py", line 41, in ?
    import gobject, gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 45,
in ?    from _gtk import *
RuntimeError: could not open display

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected output is a moderately verbose output telling you about the
backup, which is what happens from a terminal in a graphical login.  

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
v0.5.0 on Ubuntu Dapper Drake

Please provide any additional information below.
flyback never works in my crontab file - I think this is the underlying
cause.  

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 24 Jan 2008 at 2:45

Is this still being developed

Hi I have not noticed any progress in a while. This app used to develop
quickly is it still being develpped. If so I recomend making a page on
launchpad since there are so many bugss in flyback it is almost unusable.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 21 Jan 2008 at 8:36

Remove GTK code from back-end

I'm working on a patch to remove the GTK dependencies from backup_backend.py.

The backend will maintain a list of event listeners, and the GUI will
register itself as a listener.  The backend will then call the event
notification method on the listeners instead of directly updating the GUI.

The event notification method in flyback.py will do the thread sync and
update of the GUI.

In addition, if the backup cannot run then an exception will be thrown,
which the GUI code in flyback.py will catch and inform the user.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 17 Nov 2007 at 10:03

exclude patterns not working

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. include /home/[user] in include list
2. run a backup
3. watch the exclude list be ignored :-(

The default exclude patterns like "/**.thumbnails/" doesnt work.

These should be enforced.

I am using .4 on ubuntu gutsy

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 4 Dec 2007 at 11:47

Can't add excluded directories

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. create a clean install of flyback
2. go to the settings dialogue
3. try to add a excluded directory

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I should see "excluded directories" and then a list of them. Instead, I see
a white background without the caption or directories i wanted to exclude.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.2.1 on kubuntu gutsy (7.10)

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by okke.formsma on 7 Nov 2007 at 6:49

Needs automatic backup, perhaps based on inotify

For reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify

http://blog.rlove.org/2007/10/leopard-review-notes.html 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Nov 2007 at 10:12

gksu not found, crontab not installed

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use on system without gksu
2. Error given: sh: gksu: command not found

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

A given system might not have gksu but kdesu available. The attached
patch checks for a KDE session and uses kdesu instead. It would probably
be better to first check if either is available on the system.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

SVN

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 21 Jan 2008 at 1:40

Attachments:

• kdesu.patch

flyback refuses to start

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. launch flyback successfully
2. make a snapshot
3. close flyback when done
4. modify some files
5. open flyback
6. make another snapshot
7. close flyback
8. attempt to open flyback
9. fail

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected the program to launch and give console output. Instead, there 
is no console output nor any GUI

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 0.3 on a fresh install of Kubuntu 7.10 on x86.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Nov 2007 at 4:21

No error display on call if backup location is not available

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set a backup location in flyback
2. remove (plug off the external drive) the location
3. run flyback
=> no error

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I want something like an error message (GUI) so that I see that the backup
did not work and the possibility to rerun the backup process after I
plugged the external storage in.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.40 on Ubuntu 7.10


Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alexander.taubenkorb on 10 Dec 2007 at 4:19

Backup doesn't finish cleanly when copying files it has no permissions for

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. tell Flyback to backu /etc
2. start flyback --backup

It gives you the error messages saying cannot access certain files, it then
actually completes the rest of the backup but just haqngs at the end and
does not delete the lockfile


Version 0.4 - Ubuntu Linux 7.10

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:42

Lockfile.txt reappears

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Trying to backup
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The backup should start. the lockfile.txt appears in the drive and I am
unable to backup. If I delete it and try to backup again, the lockfile.txt
appears again.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

0.5, ubuntu gutsy gibbon
Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 24 Dec 2007 at 10:22

Resolve filelock creation problem

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Normal install /usage with crontab
   (Lockfile not deleted, or created very frequently

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

After at most 3 or 4 backups, the lock file is made and left in the backup
directory and further automated backups are not made until it is manually
deleted.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.4.0 on Ubuntu gutsy 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP

Please provide any additional information below.

 crontab didn't work, so I made my own manual entry one

30 * * * * python /media/data/python/flyback.py --backup >cronlog.txt 2>&1

I have flyback installed on a spare ext3 data partition and it also backs
up to there in my prefs, and I have it making a backup every 30 minutes. I
noticed when I added the  >cronlog.txt 2>&1 to it that not only do I get a
log in my home directory, but it also no longer creates the lockfile which
prevents future backups. At least not for me. Just thought the developer
might like to know this, I have no idea why, as I am still something of a
newb in linux. Attached is cronlog.txt.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 26 Jan 2008 at 5:15

Attachments:

• cronlog.txt

GUI unclear at [Preferences -> Backup schedule] and icons of main screen

It's not very clear in the preferences tab Backup Schedule whether the
backups are ran EACH 12 hours, 3 minutes, or AT 12:03. Is it possible to
create a backup each workday at 5? 

Also, the icons in the main screen don't have a tooltip attached to them.
The icon's are on first view not self-explanatory, so it might be a good
idea to add them.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by okke.formsma on 8 Nov 2007 at 10:51

cron doesn't work properly.. can't find pygtk

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set the crontab to run
2. wait
3. get the following error 

error: could not find python module gtk

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
fedora 7 
current release of flyback

Please provide any additional information below.
pygtk is installed

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 16 Nov 2007 at 4:59

Permission Denied

I followed the posted steps for installing flyback and everything went fine
to the point where I entered ./flyback.py

When i enter the above command, it says "bash: ./flyback.py: Permission denied"

I checked the permissions on the file to make sure and I have full
read/write permission. I tried logging in as root, but same error persisted.

How can I fix this?

Thnx

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mohamad.elwan on 19 Nov 2007 at 8:21

Enhancement: standard exclusions

Add a set of standard exclusions so that people can back up their home
directories without getting all the cached stuff.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Nov 2007 at 10:00

Backup button issue

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run a backup
2. Complete the backup

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected button to return to normal "Backup" state, instead the button
shows "Backup is running", although the program has no more feedback and
exiting the program doesn't give the 'backup is running' warning.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Using 0.4.0 on Ubuntu 7.10.

Please provide any additional information below.

Exiting the program gives a normal exit.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by samurailink3 on 18 Nov 2007 at 7:43

OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/cdrom'

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.
sergei@tiny:~/flyback/flyback$ python flyback.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "flyback.py", line 721, in <module>
    main()
  File "flyback.py", line 716, in main
    main_gui()
  File "flyback.py", line 363, in __init__
    self.refresh_file_list()
  File "flyback.py", line 246, in refresh_file_list
    file_stats = os.stat(full_file_name)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/cdrom'
sergei@tiny:~/flyback/flyback$                            

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Mar 2008 at 12:48

Backup not linking to previous fiels

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Running backup for teh first time
2. running it again

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I should see that the second backup directory has linked to files that are
unchanged but instead I cannot see these files unless I click on the forst
backup I made.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.4 ubuntu gutsy gibbon

Please provide any additional information below.
In the output it sasy that it was unable to create a link

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 13 Jan 2008 at 11:23

feature request: detailed view of log

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.4

Please provide any additional information below.
I would like to know in details what went wrong during the backup. 

also: 
logpath implemented in the preferences

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 4 Apr 2008 at 5:17

Too much shell in backup_backend

df, rm, ... can all be replaces by python commands. Maybe there is even a
librsync for python?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 4 Dec 2007 at 3:32

Won't Do Manual Backups

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Click the clock icon
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Backup. This message:
External Storage Location Error

The external storage location you've specified is already in use.  Please
quit any other open instances of FlyBack (or wait for their backups to
complete) before starting a new backup.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.4.0 Xubuntu Hardy Linux

Please provide any additional information below.
I've been able to do manual backups in the past, but never timed. The time
problem may be because I want them done on Sunday, and I don't know if
Sunday is 0, 1, 6, or 7.

I've not changed the location since I was able to do the manuals. It's my
Windows partition, and is not used for anything else in Linux.

Lane

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 2 Apr 2008 at 11:53

nonexistant settings error?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. check out rev 27 on a clean ubuntu gutsy system
2. run 'python flyback.py'
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
a gui is expected, I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "flyback.py", line 56, in <module>
    lockfile = client.get_string("/apps/flyback/external_storage_location")
+'/flyback/lockfile.txt'
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
svn rev 27 on Ubuntu gutsy

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Nov 2007 at 11:53

icon tooltips

Also, the icons in the main screen don't have a tooltip attached to them.
The icon's are on first view not self-explanatory, so it might be a good
idea to add them.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Nov 2007 at 5:50

crash on non-existant backup-folder

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. start flyback and set-up a folder for backups
2. close flyback and remove the folder
3. start flyback

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect flyback starting and complaining about a missing
backup-folder, instead I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "flyback.py", line 533, in ?
    main()
  File "flyback.py", line 528, in main
    main_gui()
  File "flyback.py", line 245, in __init__
    self.refresh_available_backup_list()
  File "flyback.py", line 172, in refresh_available_backup_list
    for n in self.backup.get_available_backups():
  File "/home/zhenech/dev/flyback/flyback-svn/src/backup_backend.py", line
91, in get_available_backups
    dirs = dircache.listdir(self.parent_backup_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/dircache.py", line 25, in listdir
    mtime = os.stat(path).st_mtime
OSError: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden:
'/home/zhenech/flybacktest/to/flyback'


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
svn r33 on Debian Sid

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 11 Nov 2007 at 5:33

Don't use special chars in timestamps

atm flyback creates "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" directories to store the data in there.
this works on ext3 and other *nix filesystems, which allow a wide set of
characters in names, but fails on ntfs/fat32/othernonsogoodfs :)

This structure should be either completely user-editable (the user would
have to input a string strptime() accepts, or at least have some options like:
"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"
"%U" (yeah, there ARE ppl loving unix timestamps :>)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Nov 2007 at 12:52

Zen of Python is being disturbed: Errors are passing silently

What steps will reproduce the problem?
0. Have automatic backups configured
1. abend during cron'd backup leaving lockfile.txt in place
2. get busy doing other things, not noticing that cron'd flyback is
refusing to run
3. Don't check for a week or so and be amazed that you were more exposed
than you thought. ;)


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Flyback should alert the user by email if a backup failed because of a
lockfile.txt condition.  should be able to make flyback squeal loudly if it
knows that the backup is not working as planned.  

The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
"Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced."

These conditions should cover, out of space, lockfile exists and possibly
auto delete of older backup due to user conditions.  "Hey buddy, I just
nuked backup x because you said to if this condition was true." 

The overall premise, is that flyback in cron mode needs to be able to
generate feedback for the user under warning or error conditions.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
flyback 0.4 on ubuntu 7.10

Please provide any additional information below.
Should be able to send a simple email, modify config to allow 1 or more
addresses, subject, sender and mail server/port

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 18 Dec 2007 at 3:21

Flyback does not archive visible directories

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Select /home/{username}
2. Touch nothing on the "exclude" side
3. Hit "Backup"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd expect to see a full backup of my /home/{username} directory. Instead,
only files on the first level are backed up, and all hidden directories
(ie. the ones whose filename starts with a period), recursively. Visible
directories are not backed up at all for some reason.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm using FlyBack v0.4.0 on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 17 Feb 2008 at 11:01

Hardlinks not being created for each sucessive backup

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open op Flyback
2. Create initial Backup manually
3. Create additional backup 1 hour later, again manually

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The output isn't really the problem. The issue is that the next backup is
almost exactly the same size as the previous. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 0.3
Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 with latest updates

Please provide any additional information below.

+Here is the rsync command issued by Flyback on the second backup

$ mkdir -p '/Backup/FlyBack/flyback/2007-11-09 08:54:36'/home/landon

$ rsync -av  --link-dest='/Backup/FlyBack/flyback/2007-11-09
06:57:37/home/landon' '/home/landon/' '/Backup/FlyBack/flyback/2007-11-09
08:54:36/home/landon/'
building file list ... rsync: opendir
"/home/landon/Documents/CFCard/temp/cgi-bin" failed: Permission denied (13)
done.

...

sent 15145520 bytes  received 290444 bytes  6528.21 bytes/sec
total size is 24887272050  speedup is 1612.29
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(977)
[sender=2.6.9]


+Disk Usage results
24523264        2007-11-09 06:57:37/
24469616        2007-11-09 08:54:36/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Nov 2007 at 2:53

Crontab not working

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Try to get the flyback to run by using crontab

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
For flyback to run at a specified time, but it does not

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Using 0.4 on ubuntu gutsy

Please provide any additional information below.
When I type crontab -e I see "0 * * * * python /home/[user]/flyback.py
--backup #flyback" This will not launch flyback because flyback is not in
that directory.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 11 Dec 2007 at 4:01

How about to add ChangeLog to tarball ?

Hi!

It would be nice to have the ChangeLog in tarball (releases). Also maybe a
setup.py to install it.

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 28 Jan 2008 at 2:31

available snapshot list not updating.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. install a new version of FlyBack
2. try to set the storage location at a directory on a partition of a local
disk
3. storage location shows (none) as location instead of the directory

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
(none) in the dropdownlist instead of the path

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.2.1 on kubuntu g. 

Please provide any additional information below.
The console outputs:
$ rsync -av --delete '/home/okke/' '/media/sda3/backuptest/2007-11-07
19:46:05/home/okke/'
building file list ... done
rsync: mkdir "/media/sda3/backuptest/2007-11-07 19:46:05/home/okke" failed:
No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(529) [receiver=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(454)
[sender=2.6.9]

This might be because of this bug. It might be another bug.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by okke.formsma on 7 Nov 2007 at 6:55

FeatureRequest: Multiple/Second "Profiles"

Hi,

It would be nice if there is an option to create multiple profiles. I have
different files to backup and the schedule also varies. Eg. I want to
backup my documents every day but my photos only every week.

best regards, Alex

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alexander.taubenkorb on 3 Dec 2007 at 6:28

phyton.pl issued by crontab does not remove lockfile

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. line in /etc/crontab 
0 */3   * * *   user  python /home/abortx/FlyBack/flyback.py --backup
2. wait for crontab to execute

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
After cropntab is executed lockfile will not be removed
When i give the command underneath myself, the lockfile does disapear.
$ python /home/abortx/FlyBack/flyback.py --backup

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
FlyBack 0.4.0 Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10

Please provide any additional information below.
I'm a newbie to crontabs, i could just do this totaly wrong..
For me it did not work to make a crontab via the FlyBack interface.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 23 Dec 2007 at 8:54

resulting Backup contains folders w/o filess

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install
2. Setup (3 day interval)
3. Backup

What is the expected output?  Backup containing floder/files. What do you 
see instead? I see folder structure w/o any files


What version of the product are you using? latest(?). On what operating 
system? Kubuntu 7.10


Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:31

Flyback will only run as root

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Starting Flyback only
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It doesn't run...it flashes the gui frontend then I see this:
flyback.py:330: GtkWarning: Theme directory 128x128 of theme StudioNewbuntu
has no size field

  self.xml = gtk.glade.XML(RUN_FROM_DIR + 'viewer.glade')
The program 'programname' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 366 error_code 2 request_code 58 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Flyback v0.4.0

Please provide any additional information below.

Flyback will only run as "sudo" (root)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 27 Feb 2008 at 11:27

AttributeError: main_gui instance has no attribute 'show_prefs_dialog'

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download flyback 0.2, unpack and run on Ubuntu Gutsy system with all
(the stated) dependencies satisfied

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect some sort of GUI. Instead, it dies with error output as follows

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Ubuntu Gutsy (i.e., 7.10)

Please provide any additional information below.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./flyback.py", line 813, in <module>
    main_gui()
  File "./flyback.py", line 738, in __init__
    self.show_prefs_dialog()
AttributeError: main_gui instance has no attribute 'show_prefs_dialog'

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Nov 2007 at 1:11

Race condition in install_crontab

There is a race-condition in install_crontab, see my comments:

    def install_crontab(self, c):
        existing_crons = []

        stdin, stdout = os.popen4('crontab -l')
        # we do now have the crontab at timestamp T
        for line in stdout:
            if line.startswith('no crontab for'): continue
            if line.endswith('#flyback\n'): continue
            existing_crons.append(line)
        if c:
            existing_crons.append(c + ' python '+ os.getcwd() +'/flyback.py
--backup #flyback\n')
        stdin.close()
        stdout.close()
        # we have parsed it and needed n time for that, so now we have T+n
        # during the time needed for parsing, the user has added another
crontab entry

        f = open('/tmp/flyback_tmp_cron', 'w')
        f.writelines( existing_crons )
        f.close()
        os.system('crontab /tmp/flyback_tmp_cron')
        # we are writing the crontab as of timestamp T plus our small change
        # deleting the change the user did somewhere between T and T+n :(

Hope it's clear ;)
If not, bomb me via email

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Nov 2007 at 8:08

Configuration API

The attached source file as a wrapper around the GConf configuration stuff.  

Would it be possible for you to update the code to use this instead of raw
GConf calls?

If you do this then I can build a slot-in replacement using Python
configuration files (or KDE config, or whatever).

I have tried to replace the calls myself but the code base is changing too
fast for me to keep up, and I keep on having to start again :-)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Nov 2007 at 11:37

Attachments:

• gconf_config.py

how to specify an existing config file

I want to run the backup as root but I get the following:

0 15 $sudo python /home/shaun/flyback/flyback.py --backup 
The external storage location you've specified does not exist.  Please
update your preferences.

If I ask it for help on options for the command line to specify the config
file to use, I get this:

0 13 $python /home/shaun/flyback/flyback.py --help
option --help not recognized
for help use --help

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Feb 2008 at 12:27

Consider basing FlyBack on rdiff-backup instead of rsync

There's a popular backup program that has rsync like
functionality at its base but provides much more
called rdiff-backup.  It's written in Python, so
putting flyback on top of that wouldn't be too hard.

One main difference between using rsync and rdiff-backup
is that rdiff-backup stores binary diffs for files that
are different.  rsync will store a complete different
copy of a file, even if only a few bytes out of many
are different.

Check it out at:

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

Regards,
Blair

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Nov 2007 at 9:37

GUI error

In the about box, loosely is spelled incorrectly

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Nov 2007 at 7:13