KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

Hi Dan,
I think I now found the problem:
The KDE libs use Qt file operations and they are limited with file sizes to 4 Byte ... which means they simply can not deal with files larger than 4GB...
I will modify kbackup to automatically limit a single slice to that size. - Dec 22 2007
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

You can disable the compression completely via a profile setting.

The reason for compressing each file was the idea to allow for archive slices with a maximum size but still have compressed data.
To be able to know if a file still fits into a slice, I have to compress it before putting it into the slice, otherwise I can not know how large the slice will be when I compress the complete slice. - Oct 14 2007
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

You have to pass only the full path to the scriptfile, e.g.
kbackup --script /home/pierre/Documents/Scripts/RotateBackup - Oct 14 2007
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

I found a problem with kbackup and large files: It does not deal correctly with files larger than 2GB
I'm about to fix these problems and will release a new version in the next days. - Sep 30 2007
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

Hmmm....to be able to tell what's wrong I would need the tar file for analysis ... which might be problematic here.
Could you try to make smaller backups for test and see if it works at all ? - Sep 28 2007
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

Ah yes. Use the following instead:

find . -name \*bz2 -print0 | xargs -0 bunzip2 - Feb 04 2007
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

You can use konqueror and use the right mouse button menu "Extract to...".

Or if you have all the .bz2 files, you can do the following to unzip all files from the current directory recursively down:

find . -name \*bz2 | xargs bunzip2

There is currently no direct way from within kbackup (it's on my TODO list) - Feb 03 2007
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

You don't need to decide the target format, it is done automatically and it chooses the best one depending on the availability (which normally will be bzip2) - Dec 23 2006
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

As I do not provide debian packages (I have no Debian based system), you should download the source and compile/install it.
See the included README file.
P.S.: you need to have some development packages installed, e.g. g++, kdelibs-devel, etc. - Nov 10 2006
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

I have no idea how I can put kbackup into the ClickNRun repository.
If you can tell me whom to contact, I'll try to. - Nov 05 2006
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

This is already possible! Simply put the URL into the target folder field. E.g.: smb://hostname/share
See also the docs. - Oct 14 2006
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

The option to restore a backup is on the TODO list ...
Until that you can simply open konqueror, double click the backup tar file, select the file(s) to restore and in the right-mousebutton menu select "Extract to..." - Oct 12 2006
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

Hey, great! Thanks. - Oct 02 2006
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

I thought about this, but the problem is, that it would be an incompatible behaviour with what users got when using kbackup < 0.5

And as kbackup stores the prefix inside the profile (.kbp file), it will be used when you run kbackup from cron and pass that .kbp file. - Sep 25 2006
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

Shouldn't be complicated. I'll add this. - Sep 16 2006
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

I incorporated this already into kdelibs in SVN.

In addition you can find the patch here:
http://members.aon.at/m.koller/kio.patch - Sep 07 2006
KBackup

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by mkoller 106 comments

I assume you want it to run then without displaying a GUI, right?
This could be done if one defines a URL as target, otherwise there is no user which does the medium change.
Would that be sufficient ?
What do others think ? - Sep 04 2006