I'm searching for a linux backup solution. And flexbackup is almost it! There are three things that make me continue looking for other solutions:
1) Crashev has asked these questions (twice): > My question is - how to restore fully latest backup ? I mean if my > system fails today and I want to have the freshest backup restored - > how to do it with flexbackup? Should I extract fullbackup with *.0.* > and then overwrite files with other days backups or how does it work? > The other thing is how to to tell apart differential from > incremental in such scenerio? These are *very* reasonable questions to be asking of my backup system. How do I reliably recreate the "last good state"? Any backup system that can't answer these questions are not up to the job, IMHO. 2) Pablo Godel asked: incremental backups and deleted files Basically, if I delete files and make incremental backups, the deletion of these files is not recorded in the incremental backups. So no, it is in fact impossible to reliably get to the last good state. Also, FAQ "How do I find out which archive(s) contain a certain file?" on http://www.edwinh.org/flexbackup/faq.html mentions: > If you don't know in which archive to find a certain file, look at > the log files. As long as you have verbose turned on (default), you > can just 'zgrep filename /var/log/flexbackup/*.gz', and that works > pretty well. No, that doesn't work very well. It *sucks*! (Especially if you have to restore 12342345 files and you don't know what they are.) There seems to be no way to automatically and reliably restore/extract a backup set. Adding just a little meta-data to the created backups could enable this functionality: I'm thinking a -search option to find the relevant archives and -restore to extract from the relevant archives. 3) There are three Project Admins: edwinh, jjreynold and pholcomb. EdwinH, the only one to ever post to the mailing list, last did so 2004/01/30 - over two years ago. Basically the project is without contributors and maintainers. I'm tempted to take a stab at adding the meta data to the created and backuped data and implementing -restore and -search. I've just never used a tape backup system, only to-disk. Would anybody we willing to test any such enhancements on a tape-drive? Peter --------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # I'd like to be able to restore src with newest file2, # file3 and file4 in it. (And no file1) # Impossible with current flexbackup, though. mkdir src echo line > src/file1 echo line > src/file2 echo line > src/file3 echo line > src/file4 flexbackup -c flexbackup.conf -set test -level 0 rm src/file1 echo anotherline > src/file2 chmod go-rwx src/file3 ls -l src sleep 60 flexbackup -c flexbackup.conf -set test -level 1 -- Peter Valdemar Mørch http://www.morch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
