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These are five projects that are almost ready and would be nice to have finished and documented.
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These are four (at the moment) projects that are almost ready and would be nice to have finished and documented.
  
 
See if you can help test or contribute to them.  
 
See if you can help test or contribute to them.  
We limit the projects to five to concentrate effort.  
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We limit the projects to four (at the moment) to concentrate effort.  
  
  
  
 
===Backup with dar===
 
===Backup with dar===
This contrib uses dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr) to create a
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http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar
feature rich backup system for smeserver to network shares or attached USB disk.
 
  
This rpm has moved from being a contrib, to testing stage
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Released in 7.4
for inclusion in the base install.  
 
The latest version of the rpm can be found in the smetest repo
 
 
 
http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar
 
  
 
===Disable yum remove===
 
===Disable yum remove===
Software installer (namely "Remove installed software") is removing more than
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Released as an update for SME7. For details see [[bugzilla:3133]].
just the packages selected due to dependencies.
 
 
 
It runs yum -y remove <selected packages>
 
and therefore removes the requested packages along with any
 
dependencies BUT without asking for confirmation. I think this is a bit
 
dangerous and much to tempting especially for someone that is a "bit sleepy"
 
 
 
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3133
 
  
 
===Shadow Copy===
 
===Shadow Copy===
Letting network users restore previous versions via Explorer
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This is implemented
has dramatically reduced the time in restoring
 
files and is a tremendous time saver overall.
 
 
 
This is already implemented, one minor bug remains
 
[[Bugzilla:3862]]
 
  
 
For usage see the wiki entry [[ShadowCopy]].
 
For usage see the wiki entry [[ShadowCopy]].

Latest revision as of 08:45, 31 May 2009

These are four (at the moment) projects that are almost ready and would be nice to have finished and documented.

See if you can help test or contribute to them. We limit the projects to four (at the moment) to concentrate effort.


Backup with dar

http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar

Released in 7.4

Disable yum remove

Released as an update for SME7. For details see bugzilla:3133.

Shadow Copy

This is implemented

For usage see the wiki entry ShadowCopy.

LDAP user account information and authentication

http://wiki.contribs.org/LDAP

Storing user information and authentication in a LDAP backend would improve adding Linux workstations to the domain as well (Samba man pages: Winbind: Microsoft Active Directory Services).