Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:22:25 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Eivind Olsen <eivind@aminor.no>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any good backup-programs? Message-ID: <20020228142225.3CE20BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020228075232.00b0d658@mail.utexas.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020228075232.00b0d658@mail.utexas.edu>
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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.
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