StoreMan

StoreMan is a GUI program for Linux and Windows, written in Python and based on the wxWidgets cross-platform Gui-library. The software is a combination of a comfortable backup program and an db based archive manager.

Storeman is ideal suited to backup / store files on NAS boxes or on USB disk drives - and for searching files without the need to have the storage devices permanently online.

Installation:

- unpack and copy the folder StoreMan from the zip to a place of your choice
- on Linux systems /opt/StoreMan is a good choice
- Python 2.4.x, 2.5.x or 2.6.x has to be installed (this is default on Linux systems)
- install wxPython 2.8.x (package python-wxgtk2.8 on Ubuntu) or better
- locate and double click storeman.pyw or run from a command line

"python ./storeman.pyw"  (Linux)
"pythonw .storeman.pyw" (Windows)

When StoreMan is up and running, press F1 for help or double click storeman.html to view the program help in your default webbrowser.

What is new in this release:

• Fixed: problem with TreeControl
• Improved: better update mechanism and more
• Updated: Help file

What is new in version 1.34:

• Additional info: StoreMan-1.34
• Fixed: Problem with TreeControl
• Changed: Mechanism for updates now as background thread
• Improved: Platform compatibility
• Updated: Help file

What is new in version 1.32:

• Fixed: problem with '/' as source dir for backup tasks
• Improved: regular expression Example view in New / Edit task dialog
• Improved: database query performance
• Updated: Help file

What is new in version 1.31:

• Fixed: problem with non ascii chars in tarxxx container names
• Fixed: problem with link handling in tar and zip compression
• Added: clicking on the column headers of the Query results window reorders the
• results
• Improved: better database integrity checks
• Updated: Help file

What is new in version 1.30:

• Fixed: in regular expressions the usage of chars with ord > 127 like A€,A¶ and so on caused the the application to crash.
• Fixed: in rare situations the Databasemanager dialog did not start.
• Changed: some users where confused by the checklistboxes in the Taskmanger,
• Jobmanager, ... Now these are changed to listboxes. This makes the UI simpler and the drawback is minimal.
• Added: the program can check the website for a new release at startup (Preferences,
• Misc tab, Update check)
• Added: now the Exclude re's tab of the New / Edit task dialog has a listbox with sourcepath files and dirs. The defined re's are applied so that you can see if they act as expected.
• Added: Help screen with the re syntax, special chars, ... on the Exclude re's tab.
• Updated: Help file

What is new in version 1.25:

• Fixed: The Scheduled job execution sometimes executed a job twice.
• Added: Database handling is now combined in a Database manager.
• Improved: Logging now uses the standard Python logger with a RotatingFileHandler (see
• Help file). An Action logger is added to logging.
• Improved: The Job- and the TaskManager now have a clone mode. So you can create a
• Template and reduce typing while creating new tasks or jobs.
• Improved: Help file

What is new in version 1.23:

• Changed: The Backup jobs and Backup tasks subwindows have merged. In the new Backup jobs tree view you can see the tasks associated with the jobs if you expand the job you are interested in.
• Added: StoreMan's Mount manager can mount predefined fstab entries of type nfs and cifs (Samba).
• Improved: Help file

What is new in version 1.21:

• Added: StoreMan can check the homepage for updates.
• Fixed: Problem with the Cancel and Close buttons in the Job add / edit
• dialog.
• Improved: Start of a filemanager via double click on an item in the
• Query results window.
• Improved: Help file

Requirements:

• Python
• wxWidgets