Linux Ware Weekly #8 (Back-up Programs)
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From: Whirled.Peas on 12 Apr 2010 08:52 The Linux Ware Weekly #8 Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various tasks. Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably overlook several applications since there are so many different programs written for Linux and forks upon forks of the popular ones. This week we are going to look at back up software. Backing things up in Linux can be as easy as setting a cron job to run rsync. It can also be much more involved. I will present a few back up solutions, some of which are simply GUI interfaces running rsync in the background. Some of the programs featured here can connect to off site storage for additional security. GUI Programs: Bar Homepage: http://www.kigen.de/projects/bar/index.html Screenshot: http://www.kigen.de/projects/bar/images/bar-status.jpg BAR is backup archiver program to create compressed and encrypted archives of files that can be stored on a hard disk, CD, DVD, or directly on a server via FTP, SCP, or SFTP. A server mode and a scheduler are integrated for making automated backups in the background. A graphical front end that can connect to the (remote) server is included. dkopp Homepage: http://kornelix.squarespace.com/dkopp Screenshot: See the homepage Dkopp is a program for copying or backing up disk files to DVD. Full or incremental backups can be made, with full or incremental DVD verification. Dkopp uses a GUI to navigate through directories to select or de-select files or directories at any level. Backup jobs can be saved for recurring use. New, deleted, and updated files are handled automatically, without re-editing the backup job. An incremental backup updates the same DVD used for a prior full backup. Large backup jobs can be done using multiple DVDs. A GUI restore function is also provided. Differences between disk and DVD can be reported in total, by directory and by file. Bacula Homepage: http://www.bacula.org/en/ Screenshot: http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=screenshot Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient and relatively easy to use, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Areca Homepage: http://www.areca-backup.org/ Screenshot: http://www.areca-backup.org/screenshots.php Areca is a file backup system that supports data compression (zip / zip64 format) and encryption, incremental backups, FTP file transfer, a file history explorer, and many other features. It includes a transaction mechanism, which guarantees the integrity of your backups. Two user interfaces are available: a command-line interface (useful for backup automation) and a graphical user interface (useful for backup administration). Bran Backup Homepage: http://branbackup.org/index.php/Main_Page Bran is a backup server solution based on Bacula. It is a special Linux distribution to organize the backup center of an organization. It can create a server that is ready to use after a very simple install procedure. The server has a very simple user interface that relieves users of the burden of worrying about the implementation details of the backup process. Lucky Backup Homepage: http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/ Screenshot: http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html luckyBackup is a powerful, fast, reliable, and fully customizable backup and sync tool. It can backup any directory (the source) to another (the destination). luckyBackup copies over only the changes you've made to the source directory and nothing more, saving a great deal of time for backups after the first one. Whatever changes you make to the source, including adding, moving, deleting, modifying files or directories, will have the same effect on the destination. Owner, group, time stamps, links, and permissions of files are preserved (unless directed otherwise). The synchronization feature works on any pair of directories, keeping the files that were most recently modified on both of them. It includes many safety checks to prevent accidental loss of data. Terminal Programs: Cedar Backup Homepage: http://cedar-backup.sourceforge.net/ Cedar Backup is a software package designed to manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines. Cedar Backup understands how to back up filesystem data as well as MySQL and PostgreSQL databases and Subversion repositories. It can also be easily extended to support other kinds of data sources. Cedar Backup is focused around weekly backups to a single CD or DVD disc. It supports multisession discs, allowing you to add incremental data to a disc on a daily basis. Cedar Backup also provides a Python library of backup-related functionality. Scdbackup Homepage: http://scdbackup.webframe.org/main_eng.html scdbackup is a simplified CD/DVD backup program for Linux. It can back up large amounts of data on one or more media, with no special tools needed for reading the backup. It supports ISO9660 filesystems and afio archives. Its special features are automatic division of data into multiple volumes, verification of write success, incremental backups, a search and restore helper for large ISO9660 backups. CDs get written via cdrecord, wodim, cdrskin, or xorriso. DVDs and BDs get written via growisofs, cdrskin, or xorriso. Tartarus Homepage: http://wertarbyte.de/tartarus.shtml Tartarus is a backup script designed to make backups of dedicated servers easy. It employs a range of standard Unix tools to achieve this goal, to simplify disaster recovery even when only a minimal rescue system is available. Archives can be stored on-the-fly on FTP servers as well as in the local filesystem, while a plugin system allows adaption to a wide range of usage scenarios. The use of LVM snapshots and the creation of differential backups are also included, as is an expire script to remove older archives from an FTP site. -- If you try, you can envision peas on earth.
From: Craig on 12 Apr 2010 09:49 On 04/12/2010 05:52 AM, Whirled.Peas wrote: > The Linux Ware Weekly #8 > > Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly... > > This week we are going to look at back up software... Thx Peas. There were only two I recognized(!), Bacula & Areca. Bacula is a bit too industrial-strength for our needs but I'll be taking a closer look at Areca. I've been using Unison for the last 5-ish years to run our backup and sync jobs. Two reasons: first it works /across/ most, if not all, of the major distos (inc windows, solaris, *bsd, macosx) and; second, it's resilient. We've had operations interrupted for all sorts of reasons and the data have always been left in a sensible state. Although I started out using Unison via its gui, the real fun begins with editing the config file. thx again! -- -Craig
From: Wheel on 12 Apr 2010 17:44 Whirled.Peas wrote: > The Linux Ware Weekly #8 > > This week we are going to look at back up software. The usual high standard. <yawn> :) Thank you.
From: Sergio on 14 Apr 2010 13:26 On 12.04.2010 23:44, Wheel wrote: > Whirled.Peas wrote: >> The Linux Ware Weekly #8 >> >> This week we are going to look at back up software. > > The usual high standard. <yawn> :) > > Thank you. Still missing syncback from win32 days. I tried Bar from debs. not working at all (ubuntu lucid). I tried: http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Still broken even in last version. -- Sergio http://usluge.endrigo.com/ http://riga.endrigo.com/
From: za kAT on 14 Apr 2010 13:44 On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:52:31 +0000 (UTC), Whirled.Peas wrote: Any reason why you didn't mention 'tar'? -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.comwhy
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