looking for backup suggestions

[Ameer Armaly]

I haven't heard of anything like what you're looking for, but would be glad 
to help in the development of such a program.
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:03 PM
Subject: looking for backup suggestions


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> Hi all.
>
> There are a good number of backup utilities out there, but none of the
> ones I've found so far seem to be able to do what I'm looking for. So,
> I thought I'd post what I'm looking for here, in the hope that someone
> may know of something that I haven't stumbled across yet.
>
> I'm looking for something that will create a list of all the packages
> installed on my debian system, and put the list of installed packages,
> along with any modified configuration files from the original debian
> config files into a tar.bz2 file, which would then be uploaded to a
> system via rsync over ssh, and then be compared to the file already on
> the rsync system every 24 hours let's say.
>
> The point here being that I could install a basic debian system onto a
> empty box/drive, and have the backup utility fetch the tar archive
> from the rsync system, install any packages that were installed on the
> backed up system, but aren't installed yet on the new system, and copy
> over the configuration files, thus  giving me essentially the same
> debian system as the one of which the backup was made.
>
> Failing that, does anyone know of a utility that could archive a
> mounted file system, with the exception of some directories into a
> tar.bz2 file, and upload that to a rsync server over ssh? Then, say
> every 24 hours or so, the program would make a new tar.bz2 archive,
> and use rsync again to synchronize the differences between the 2
> archives. When I say with the exception of some directories, I mean
> that if for example /dev/hda2 was mounted on /mnt, I would want it
> excluded out of the hda1 archive, which would be mounted under /. So
> in short, every directory except /mnt would be archived in this
> example.
>
> In either case, I'm looking for something that will place most of the
> burden on the machine being backed up, and will place no additional
> burden (other then transferring the archive) on the rsync server. In
> other words, I'm looking for all the cpu intensive stuff to be done on
> the machine that's being backed up or restored.
>
> If nothing like what I'm looking for exists, I might put together
> something myself, but I didn't want to have to reinvent the wheel. I
> also hope that this makes sense.
>
> Greg
>
>
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