note that aide does not store the data itself in the db only meta information and checksums, to make that a full backup you would need to store the data also in some form
I had a experiment like that, not based on aide but based on storing deltas and meta information never had the time to work it out to a full scale program but the basics worked well to do a backup and restore on a local machine you may want to look at: http://www.inmultiplecontexts.org/mboot.org/ideas/amrta On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 14:32 +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote: > Hi all. > > aide performs some filesystem related tasks in an impressive > way (speed, consistency). Looking at the db files it generates, > it becomes obvious that if you have two versions of a db file > from different dates, you have a solid start for an incremental > backup program. I don't want to reinvent the wheel here, so let me ask: > What projects tried such an approach before (using aide)? > > Greetings > Sven > _______________________________________________ > Aide mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/aide >
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