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mylvmbackup 0.12 has been released
Written for mylvmbackup by Lenz Grimmer on 2009-06-20
After a long hiatus, I am happy to announce that mylvmbackup version 0.12 has now been released. This release includes a large number of improvements, minor code cleanups, as well as some new functionality. In particular, I would like to thank Matthew Boehm, Tim Stoop, Baron Schwartz, Ville Skyttä and Ronald Bradford for their contributions.
Some notable highlights from the ChangeLog:
- Removed the absolute path names to external tools (make sure $PATH is correct)
- Added --log-err to the startup options of the recovery instance to avoid cluttering the server's error log
- Added support for hooks written as Perl Modules. (Matthew Boehm)
- Added support for date/time-formatted path names for backupdir and mountdir (Matthew Boehm)
- Backupdir and mountdir are now created automatically (Matthew Boehm)
- Added new hook "logerr" when an error is logged. (Matthew Boehm)
- Added Option --keep-mount... (Tim Stoop)
- Removed the bind mount, now requires LVMv2
- Support reading login/password from ~/.my.cnf (Baron Schwartz)
- Documentation fixes and improvements (Ville Skyttä) (Bug #302144)
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mylvmbackup 0.11 has been released
Written for mylvmbackup by Lenz Grimmer on 2008-11-23
I am happy to announce that mylvmbackup version 0.11 has now been released. This release includes a large number of small improvements and code cleanups, as well as some added functionality. In particular, I would like to thank Alexander Skwar, Matthew Boehm, Matt Lohier, Joans and "kjetilho" for their contributions.
From the ChangeLog:
- Added new option "--quiet" that suppresses informal logging output
(warnings and errors will still be printed/logged)
- Applied patch from "kjetilho" that makes mylvmbackup more robust and
paraniod when it comes to handling errors/failures (Bug #298175)
Now the script aborts cleanly in case of any error.
- Fixed error handling in case of a failed DB connection (patch submitted
by Matthew Boehm, Bug #280989)
- Merged changes from Alexander Skwar: Fix for Bug #278478 and implemented
Blueprint "Improve the tar backup backend of mylvmbackup"
- Fixed Bug #271671: "overloading parameters does not work" by removing
the default values for host and port from the configuration file and
removing the unnecessary check for passing both host and socket at
the same time. Updated documentation and configuration file comments
accordingly.
- Applied patch suggested by "Jonas" to fix Bug #267944: "backup returns
successfully when snapshot creation fails"
- Code cleanup: moved flushing of tables in a separate subroutine
flush_tables()
- Code cleanup: moved log messages into the respective subroutines
- Code cleanup: use return values of subroutines instead of updating global
variables
- Improved some log messages to explain what was DONE or FAILED
- Code cleanup: build up long command strings in a $command variable before
passing it to system()
- Merged patch from Matthew Boehm: Removed old asciidoc documentation in
favor of POD style. This removes the dependency on the external program a2x
for creating documentation and uses the 'built-in' pod2html and pod2man
instead. Updated the Makefile to accommodate the change.
- Applied patch from Matthew Boehm to make the backup file name
suffix configurable via a "--suffix" option. Updated the man
page accordingly.
- Applied patch from Matt Lohier to support rsnap as a backup backend
- Updated man page
- Moved the list of contributors from the man page into a separate CREDITS
file, added missing names
mylvmbackup 0.10 has been released
Written for mylvmbackup by Lenz Grimmer on 2008-09-20
I am happy to announce that mylvmbackup version 0.10 has been released.
You can download the updated package from http://
This version fixes some bugs and includes some new functionality:
- Applied patch from Marc Haber: added option "--keep_snapshot" that will skip the removal of the backup snapshot
before terminating the script. Providing the option "--backuptype=none" will now skip creating a backup using the
builtin backup modules. Both options provide more flexibility when using hooks for performing the actual backup
tasks.
- Added two new hooks: "backupsuccess" and "backupfailure" which are called respectively upon success of failure
of the backup operation (Bug #264089)
- Make sure that binaries are being found ($PATH may not include /sbin when called from cron), added missing
entry for "lvs" to mylvmbackup.conf (Bug #255703)
- Updated documentation
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mylvmbackup 0.9 has been released
Written for mylvmbackup by Lenz Grimmer on 2008-07-10
A new version 0.9 of mylvmbackup has been released. This is the first release since the source code has been moved from Subversion to Bazaar and is now hosted on Launchpad.net.
From the ChangeLog:
- Applied patch from Patrick Hahn: provide an option to call external scripts/
- Added options "--skip_hooks" to disable the execution of hooks and "--hooksdir" to define the location for these (default is /usr/share/
- Updated documentation: added new options and instructions on how to use hooks
- Applied patch from Robin H. Johnson: Full support for an rsync:// service as the backup destination. If you include any path fragments with the rsync module name, they must already exist!
- Updated documentation to reflect these changes
- Updated TODO
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