From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 7:29: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E604137B400 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:27:38 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 3CE20BA03; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:22:25 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Eivind Olsen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any good backup-programs? Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:22:25 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020228075232.00b0d658@mail.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020228075232.00b0d658@mail.utexas.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020228142225.3CE20BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a backup program (written in perl) that does, I believe, everything that you are asking for -- there's a directory file; by default it creates a bunch of ISO images in a directory and just lets them sit there (which is what you'd want), though it is capable of burning the CDs for you, you can include & exclude any portion of your directory, it can back up any mounted disk area, so it doesn't care if it's remote or local. The incremental backup capability is a little . . . quirky, shall we say. I'll be happy to send it to you if you will promise to use it and provide some feedback. I've sent it out to a few people before and haven't gotten any feedback at all. I'd like to release it publicly and officially but I'd like at least *one* alpha-tester (besides myself) before I do so. I'd like feedback even if the feedback is that "it stinks"! > At 08:12 AM 2/28/2002 +0100, Eivind Olsen, you wrote: > >Hello. > > > >I'd like to implement some backup-solution on my FreeBSD 4.5 box, but I'm > >not sure which backup-system would be the right for me. I've read a bit > >about tar, dump, Amanda etc., but I'm not sure what to go for. > > > >The FreeBSD-box doesn't have any tapedrive, CD-burner etc., but I'd still > >like it to be the backup master, creating ISO-images that can be burned on > >another computer. > > > >The backup-solution should be able to handle the following: > > > >- backing up selected areas of the FreeBSD-box directory-structure > >- backing up remote volumes (specifically: SMB shares on two Windows 2K/XP > >computers) > >- being capable of doing both full and incremental backups > >- the backup-data should ideally be put into an ISO image, ready for > >transfer/burning at another computer > >- it should keep catalogs of what's being backed up, making it easy to > >find out where a file or directory was backed up > > > >I could always make some rudimentary solution by writing shell or > >Perl-scripts that do a "tar" of some directories, "smbtar" of some > >SMB-shares" etc., but if there already exists a solution/framework for > >this I'll try that instead. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message