Re: [SLUG] rdiff-backup
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 14:29 +0800, jam wrote: rsync -xa -e ssh --exclude=.gvfs [...] tigger:/home/ [...] rsync -xa -e ssh --exclude=.gvfs [...] tigger:/root/ [...] .gvfs is mounted as a FUSE filesystem, so that if you include --one-file-system (or -x), you won't need to exclude .gvfs explicitly, and you get the added bonus of not backing up any other random mountpoint that happens to manifest itself within your filesystem. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] rdiff-backup
Wearing my I wish somebody had said this, useful, sharing cap and not my dragons and swords one I declare that, except for those interested in pages- n-pages of python stack traces or very simple systems, rdiff-backup is unmentionably awefull. I backup daily 4 systems with a couple of 100s G each. rdiff-backup does not play with other versions, the client and server machines are different, and rdiff-backup needs to be on both machines. Some work, some dont. All versions complained about obsolete modules. As you may expect, winter power fails during the backup happened. This resulted in chaos that took significant manual input to fix. http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups.html shows rsync is easy and justworks(tm) Here is a snip of my rsync backup script: It uses 1 backup+30 tinybits of space for the backup A tiny bit of logic to avoid regetting everything after a failure would help ie don't cycle and copy unless all suceeded #! /bin/bash DAY=`date +%a` Cycle all the daily backups rm -fr /backup/tigger.etc.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.home.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.mail.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.root.30 ... for (( i=29 ; i ; i-- )) do let j=$i+1 if [ -d /backup/tigger.etc.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.etc.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.etc.$i /backup/tigger.etc.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.home.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.home.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.home.$i /backup/tigger.home.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.mail.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.mail.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.mail.$i /backup/tigger.mail.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.root.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.root.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.root.$i /backup/tigger.root.$j fi ... done tigger echo tigger /tmp/mail date /tmp/mail rsync -xa -e ssh --exclude=.gvfs --delete --link-dest=/backup/tigger.home.2 tigger:/home/ /backup/tigger.home.1 rsync -xa -e ssh --exclude=.gvfs --delete --link-dest=/backup/tigger.root.2 tigger:/root/ /backup/tigger.root.1 rsync -xa -e ssh --delete --link-dest=/backup/tigger.etc.2 tigger:/etc//backup/tigger.etc.1 rsync -xa -e ssh --delete --link-dest=/backup/tigger.mail.2 tigger:/var/spool/mail/ /backup/tigger.mail.1 ssh tigger df -h | grep '^/dev' /tmp/mail ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff-backup
2009/6/4 jam j...@tigger.ws: Wearing my I wish somebody had said this, useful, sharing cap and not my dragons and swords one I declare that, except for those interested in pages- n-pages of python stack traces or very simple systems, rdiff-backup is unmentionably awefull. We are just starting to deploy Bacula after some examination. The matter with backups is not just to make them - but also to manage a catalog to help you find the right file when you have to restore things. #! /bin/bash DAY=`date +%a` Cycle all the daily backups rm -fr /backup/tigger.etc.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.home.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.mail.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.root.30 ... for (( i=29 ; i ; i-- )) do let j=$i+1 if [ -d /backup/tigger.etc.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.etc.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.etc.$i /backup/tigger.etc.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.home.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.home.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.home.$i /backup/tigger.home.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.mail.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.mail.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.mail.$i /backup/tigger.mail.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.root.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.root.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.root.$i /backup/tigger.root.$j fi ... done Consider looking at savelog or logrotate. I'm not sure where savelog popped up from but it appears to be a script-friendly interface to one-off logrotates. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff-backup
2009/6/4 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: The matter with backups is not just to make them - but also to manage a catalog to help you find the right file when you have to restore things. On that note, you can use the rdiffWeb[0] tool to browse your rdiff-backup revisions and recover files. [0] http://www.rdiffweb.org/ Lindsay -- http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] rdiff-backup - does it work as advertised?
I've been advised to use rdiff-backup for backing up (!) and it looks very nice. Has anyone any experience with this tool? If so, how do you test it's integrity and what if any problems did you encounter? I've spot checked the mirrors that it creates and they look perfect (correct byte counts, user/groups look good, spot checking files look good) but I don't want to put my eggs in this basket and find out the hard way that the basket has holes. Also, I have no idea how to test the restore functions without actually restoring, which I only want to do in the case of a crisis. Does anyone have suggestions about this? -- David McQuire -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:44:26 +1100, Lyle Chapman wrote: Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any suggestions are appreciated 'ediff' (in emacs) does side-by-side (or otherwise), coloured diffs - with interactive merging, etc. Does 3-way, from a patch, etc, etc. Its worth using, even if you use emacs for nothing else. (emacs followed by M-x ediff RET followed by ? if you get lost) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ...and obviously theres vimdiff for those who prefer vi/m over emacs :-) http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/diff.html Rob. Angus Lees wrote: At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:44:26 +1100, Lyle Chapman wrote: Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any suggestions are appreciated 'ediff' (in emacs) does side-by-side (or otherwise), coloured diffs - with interactive merging, etc. Does 3-way, from a patch, etc, etc. Its worth using, even if you use emacs for nothing else. (emacs followed by M-x ediff RET followed by ? if you get lost) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCOKxAF+NqpIf7Yt8RAozoAJ9UBM8l9N1zksjl+5UC7HkxLK6z/wCeI7h6 UrRaN0HwJsxJYoFabnOWVAk= =lQnI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
Michael Lake wrote: $ sudo apt-get install meld The following NEW packages will be installed: desktop-file-utils gconf2 gnome-keyring gnome-mime-data libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcroco3 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libeel2-2 libeel2-data libfam0c102 libgail-common libgail17 libgconf2-4 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgsf-1 libgtkhtml2-0 libkrb53 libnautilus2-2 liborbit2 libpanel-applet2-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsmbclient libstartup-notification0 meld python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gtk2 python2.3-glade2 python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gtk2 python2.3-numeric python2.3-pyorbit shared-mime-info 0 upgraded, 51 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded. Need to get 12.8MB of archives. After unpacking 52.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Just for a bloody diff utility! Nah, no thanks Jeff :-) I'm guessing you're a KDE person? sudo apt-get install meld Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: meld 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 159kB of archives. After unpacking 1036kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/universe meld 0.9.3-1 [159kB] Fetched 159kB in 21s (7417B/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package meld. (Reading database ... 119955 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking meld (from .../archives/meld_0.9.3-1_all.deb) ... Setting up meld (0.9.3-1) ... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
David Gillies wrote: I'm guessing you're a KDE person? Nope. I just run enlightenment WM and no KDE or Gnome :-) Michael Lake wrote: $ sudo apt-get install meld The following NEW packages will be installed: desktop-file-utils gconf2 gnome-keyring gnome-mime-data libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcroco3 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libeel2-2 libeel2-data libfam0c102 libgail-common libgail17 libgconf2-4 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgsf-1 libgtkhtml2-0 libkrb53 libnautilus2-2 liborbit2 libpanel-applet2-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsmbclient libstartup-notification0 meld python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gtk2 python2.3-glade2 python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gtk2 python2.3-numeric python2.3-pyorbit shared-mime-info 0 upgraded, 51 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded. Need to get 12.8MB of archives. After unpacking 52.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Just for a bloody diff utility! Nah, no thanks Jeff :-) -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460 [pls ignore idiot lawyer's msg below] -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] rdiff?
Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any suggestions are appreciated Lyle Chapman Prepress Supervisor Torch Publishing Company 47 Allingham Street, Condell Park, NSW, Australia Ph: 61 02 9795 Fax: 61 02 9795 0096 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
Take a look at http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_detail.php?id_item=9130 it may be what you want. I havent tried it myself Luke Lyle Chapman wrote: Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any suggestions are appreciated Lyle Chapman Prepress Supervisor Torch Publishing Company 47 Allingham Street, Condell Park, NSW, Australia Ph: 61 02 9795 Fax: 61 02 9795 0096 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
Lyle Chapman wrote: Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any suggestions are appreciated I use TkDiff which is a Tck/Tk interface diff. Its pretty good as it shows the files sid-by-side and the non-matching areas highlighted graphically. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdiff/ In debian its just called tkdiff Mike -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460 [pls ignore idiot lawyer's msg below] -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:37, Michael Lake wrote: Lyle Chapman wrote: Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any suggestions are appreciated I use TkDiff which is a Tck/Tk interface diff. Its pretty good as it shows the files sid-by-side and the non-matching areas highlighted graphically. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdiff/ In debian its just called tkdiff KDiff3 is a program that compares two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and character by character, provides an automatic merge facility and an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge conflicts, and has an intuitive graphical user interface. http://freshmeat.net/projects/kdiff3/ Also have a look through the results of this search on Freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=diffsection=projectsGo.x=0Go.y=0 -- Regards, Graham Smith - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:44:26AM +1100, Lyle Chapman wrote: Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any suggestions are appreciated You might try unison as well. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
Hiya all, must stir here :-) Jeff wrote: So the side-by-side diff tools are wildly different to rdiff. But while we're on the topic, here's meld, which is a *very* sexy take on the genre: http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Yep, but even after all this time, its still not as good as mgdiff, especially the Debian version which has half a dozen of my patches. apt-get install mgdiff Well I should have a look at these, always willing to see or try new things $ sudo apt-get install mgdiff The following extra packages will be installed: lesstif1 The following NEW packages will be installed: lesstif1 mgdiff Need to get 689kB of archives. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Great done. $ sudo apt-get install meld The following NEW packages will be installed: desktop-file-utils gconf2 gnome-keyring gnome-mime-data libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcroco3 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libeel2-2 libeel2-data libfam0c102 libgail-common libgail17 libgconf2-4 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgsf-1 libgtkhtml2-0 libkrb53 libnautilus2-2 liborbit2 libpanel-applet2-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsmbclient libstartup-notification0 meld python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gtk2 python2.3-glade2 python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gtk2 python2.3-numeric python2.3-pyorbit shared-mime-info 0 upgraded, 51 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded. Need to get 12.8MB of archives. After unpacking 52.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Just for a bloody diff utility! Nah, no thanks Jeff :-) Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
Michael Lake wrote: $ sudo apt-get install meld The following NEW packages will be installed: . After unpacking 52.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Just for a bloody diff utility! Nah, no thanks Jeff :-) Okies I see it does do CVS stuff and the kitchen sink as well as diff :-) -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460 [pls ignore idiot lawyer's msg below] -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff?
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:23:48 +1100 Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Lake wrote: $ sudo apt-get install meld The following NEW packages will be installed: . After unpacking 52.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Just for a bloody diff utility! Nah, no thanks Jeff :-) Okies I see it does do CVS stuff and the kitchen sink as well as diff :-) So does mgdiff. It ships with cvsmgdiff and rmgdiff wrapper scripts which does CVS diffs and recursive directory diffs. Finally, if you want a feature enhancement you can always ask me :-). Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ This is like creating laws against blasphemy and then complaining that unbelievers can't come up with any logical argument against the existence of God -- www.infoanarchy.org on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
