Simba 0.8.4 review

Simba is file mirroring tool that allows a great deal of control over the mirrored content and, most importantly, more control over r

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 48K Developer: Subredu Manuel

0

Simba is file mirroring tool that allows a great deal of control over the mirrored content and, most importantly, more control over reporting. Simba project allows you to create Web pages with mirror status, RSS news feeds, Google sitemaps, and more.

There are many institution who offer mirroring services to the community. Most of them are using shell scripts to synchronize the content with the master servers. This approach has some major limitations:

dificult maintainance
no usefull reports
no data presented to the final user
and more

Simba, was created to get more control over the mirrored content and (the most important part) more control over the reports you can made using the mirrored content data.

Using simba, you can create web pages with mirrors status, rss news feeds, google sitemaps and, if you know some perl programming, everything you need and you think is useful for you and your company.

This website is dedicated to Simba. Here you will find usefull information about this software and usefull resources.

What's New in This Release:
The max_files parameter was removed since it was a little confusing.
max_transfered and max_deleted paramters have been added to GenHTML plugin.
Also, MaxTransfered, MaxDeleted, and MaxLimits template parameters were added.
Two new plugins were added: CheckLastUpdate (a small but useful plugin which gives you a list of outdated mirrors) and Metalink (a plugin which generates metalinks with the new content).
The website was updated to reflect the new plugins and parameters.