looking for backup suggestions

[tyler]

count me in as well. I could use the experience, and it would be kind of 
fun.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ameer Armaly" <ameerarmaly at bellsouth.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: looking for backup suggestions


>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.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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