looking for backup suggestions

[Gregory Nowak]

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If I ever start work on it, I'll certainly let you know. It does look
possible to do, and you could effectively backup a gigabyte-sized
debian system (and maybe other distros) in a few hundred megs or less.

Greg


On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:51:56PM -0500, Ameer Armaly wrote:
> 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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