rsbackup - a Qt front-end to rsync for backup purposes [Description] [Licensing] [Platforms] [Requirements] [News] [Documentation] [Screenshots] [Downloads] [Contacts] [Links] [Dev]

Description

rsbackup is a simple backup tool written in C++/Qt and designed to work with rsync.

It aims to be portable (see tested platforms below), it should run on all platforms supported by Qt4 (an old version built on top of Qt3 is also available), and where rsync exists. On MS Windows, rsbackup can work with cygwin ports of rsync (cwrsync recommended).

Licensing

This program is subject to copyright. However you can copy, use and distribute it according to the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the DISCLAIMER and LICENSE doc files for further information. It is free of charge, as well as open-source (the source is available, feel free to submit patches).
To create and distribute a binary of rsbackup built against Qt lib 3.3 on MS Windows, you must own a valid license of this product (Qt 3.3 is not free on MS Windows).

Tested platforms

• GNU/Linux
• Microsoft Windows (win32)

Requirements

• At runtime: rsync (you might use rsbackup as a front-end to other tools) or cwrsync.
• To build the sources on GNU/Linux: some of the GNU development tools (gmake 3.79, gcc, binutils, etc.), Qt3 (3.3.4 recommended).
• Building the sources on Microsoft Windows requires nmake and the MSVC++ compiler (6.0 minimum), Qt3 (3.3.4 recommended).

News

• 2008/02/11 (wwp): 0.0.9 is out, providing preliminary support for Qt4 (w/ qt3support).
• 2008/02/07 (wwp): rsbackup is now available for Maemo IT/OS2008! The project has been registered at garage.maemo.org. I'm also announcing a pre-version of 0.0.9, mostly a port to Qt4.
• 2006/09/21 (wwp): port to Qt4 is nearly complete!
• 2006/09/21 (wwp): 0.0.8 is out, this is probably the latest Qt3 version. Maintenance releases for the Qt3 branch will only be made on-demand.
• 2006/02/21 (wwp): created this embryonic page
• 2005/02/20 (wwp): release 0.0.7: bugfixes, GUI enhancements
• 2005/01/23 (wwp): first public release: 0.0.5

Documentation (latest release)

• README
• INSTALL
• LICENSE
• DISCLAIMER

Screenshots (Qt3):

Source masks	Exclude masks
Settings page	Log page (testing mode)

Downloads (latest Qt3 and Qt4 releases)

• Sources

OS	Subsystem	Arch	Downloads	Notes
all	Qt3	-	gzip bzip2 zip rar
all	Qt4	-	gzip bzip2 zip rar
GNU/Linux	Fedora Core 5 (Qt3)	noarch	srpm	This SRPM should work for quite all recent RPM-based systems
GNU/Linux	Fedora 8 (Qt4)	noarch	srpm	This SRPM should work for quite all recent RPM-based systems



• Binaries (*)

OS	Subsystem	Arch	Downloads	Notes
GNU/Linux	Fedora Core 5 (Qt3)	i686	rpm
GNU/Linux	Fedora 8 (Qt4)	i686	rpm
IT/OS2008	Maemo	ARM	deb changes
Microsoft Windows	win32 (Qt3)	x86	zip rar exe
Microsoft Windows	win32 (Qt4)	x86	zip rar exe

(*) some binary packages or tarballs might not be up-to-date, feel free to request for them (see the contacts section below). Unless specified, binary packages are dynamically linked against Qt4.


• Local downloads (including oldies, md5sums)

Contacts

• The author

Links

• rsbackup at garage.maemo.org
• rsbackup in maemo.org's OS2008 catalogue

• Rsync
• cwRsync (a MS Windows/cywgin port of rsync)
• grsync (another rsync frontend)

• The Open Source Initiative website
• Free Software Foundation - Software Licensing

Developers' corner

• Online CVS tools:
  
Browse the CVS repository (cvsweb), query the CVS history (cvshistory)
• Bug tracker:
  Freely query the bug tracker (bugzilla), view reported issues and charts. Report or edit bugs (you must create an account first)
• Other online tools (access restricted)

• Sources - CVS nightly snapshots (**)

OS	Subsystem	Arch	Downloads	Notes
all	-	-	contact the author

(**) caution: sources in CVS snapshots might be unstable and may not compile at all

Last update: 2008-02-11 14:15:40 +0100