RE: Hello

Hello Joseph,

It was great to hear from you.  I haven't gotten much feedback from users 
yet, but I highly encourage it.

>Sorry for emailing you directly.  I subscribed to the list, confurmed my
>subscription, recieved a welcome message, but my emails to
>[email protected] come back with perminate errors???

I will look into the mailing list issues.  What error messages are you 
getting?

>I just tried out Sarab 0.2.1.  Many nice improvements from 0.1, nice job.

Thanks!  I appreciate the compliment.

>I have a few comments.  In my rotation.schedule I used names like week-1,
>monday-1 .... week-2, monday-2 etc.  This caused big problems.  The first
>full backup "Week-1" was put in a folder "Week-1?". The first incremental
>was named correctly and work as expected ("monday-1" and referenced
>"Week-1?").  Problems started with the second incremental "tuesday-1" which
>used "monday-1" as its reference.  I received a error that reference 
>archive
>could not be found and instead did a fill backup ... the reference monday-1
>was there.
>
>I removed the -'s from the rotation.schedule and it now works just fine.  I
>assume the archive names need to be escaped?

I have seen this exact problem also, but I thought I had fixed it.  I can't 
remember exactly what caused it, but I will look back into it.  Thank you 
for your testing and comments.  It doesn't appear to be every name with a 
dash in it, don't you agree?

>One other thing.  I was looking in the source, and it appears to me that
>/etc/sarab/sarab.conf is sourced twice.  Once in line 40 and again on line
>61 of /usr/local/sarab/sarab.sh.  Should this be?

I agree that it is a bad design, and I am planning on combining all three 
.sh files into one file (sarab.sh), and sourcing the configuration file only 
once.

>I also have one feature request.  Could we make it possible to supply the
>config file to be used on the command line?  This would allow me to run
>multiple backups on one server.  I backup network file servers, and I want
>the root-fs to be the mount point of that file server.

What a great idea!  I have been trying to think about ways to implement 
multiple configurations of SaraB, and your idea is perfect; simple and 
effective.  I will implement it in the next release.

>I am running Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official

That is my primary development and testing platform.  I also test and run on 
Suse 9.1, my production system.

>-- Regards
>
>Joseph Watson

I hope to hear from you in the future.

Tristan Rhodes

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