GPL'ed our backup program :)! Looking for beta-testers/coders officially

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   Wonderful news!! (well, from my point of view).

   My boss has agreed to release the backup program I have been working 
on (and asking you all about so much) under the GPL2! I am really happy 
that he has agreed to do this and now I feel like I can properly ask for 
help. Admittedly I am quite biased, but I think the backup program has 
really great potential.

   Quick recap of what it is:

   The program is called "TLE-BU" (The Linux Experience BackUp). It used 
any hard drive partition as a source or destination and it supports 
hot-swap (via USB/Firewire, SCA, etc) and any file system the underlying 
OS can read or right. It intelligently decides what files will be backed 
up to where and does not need care how or where a partition is connected 
nor whether it is mounted or not. It archives complete file information 
making it possible to search for files on media that is offline using a 
very configurable search engine.

   All of this works already though the program is very much in an alpha 
state. What I need help with is improving database performance (it is 
quite DB-intensive... it's strength and it's weakness), security and 
stability. I think it is quite advanced for where it is at however I 
also know that it needs a lot of work before it can be considered mature 
enough to use in production.

   If you want to help, what you need is a test machine and a few 
partitions. There is no installer yet (that will come shortly... there 
is still a few bugs that need to be ironed out) however it is simply a 
matter of copying the relevant files to the proper directory for 
whatever web-server you want to use to see. It needs a database 
(currently only psql is supported but I want to expand this to perl's 
DBI and any other SQL compatible DB). Other than that it needs a few 
programs you probably already have: 'blkid', 'sudo', 'fdisk', etc.

   If anyone is interested in helping or wants to know more, please 
email me either here or off the list at 'mkelly_at_alteeve_dot_com'.

Madison

PS - The program is written in perl with a bit of javascript.
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