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All releases tagged Major feature enhancements

Changes: The --quiet option was added. Error handling was made more robust and consistent. Support was added for non-GNU tar implementations. Support for rsnap backups was added. Code cleanups were done. The backup file name suffix is now configurable.

Changes: A new rsync backup type was added. Support for a trailing argument was added to tar. The suffix of the tarball was separated out. A temporary suffix is used at the end of the backup file name while the backup is performed. The my.cnf configuration file is now included in the backup. The ability to run an extra FLUSH TABLES on busy databases was added. The "--pidfile" option was added to provide an alternative PID file location. The output of "lvs <snapshot>" is now printed out for diagnostics. The "--skip-flush-tables" option was added.

Changes: This release supports using an external configuration file (/etc/mylvmbackup.conf). Syslog support has been added, and console logging output has been improved. There are bugfixes and general code cleanups. Removed the START/STOP SLAVE calls have been removed.

Changes: General code cleanup and some new features/options. An RPM package is now available.