Gordon Messmer wrote: > After publicly bitching about Linux's poor backup infrastructure for the > hundredth time, I decided to write a common system for making snapshots. > I've written the first iteration in bash. It took one day to do most of > the work, and then a few hours of testing and fixing to get things > working reasonably well. > > https://bitbucket.org/gordonmessmer/dragonsdawn-snapshot > > At this point, there's enough working for other people to start looking > at. Systems with ext3/4 filesystems on LVM are supported. btrfs will > follow. PostgreSQL has a script to make its data consistent, but other > common systems like MySQL, OpenLDAP, and 389 DS need similar support. > Documentation needs to be written. A few architectural issues need to > be ironed out. > > If you're interested in improving the state of backups on GNU/Linux, > please have a look and contact me if you want to help with code, > testing, documentation, packaging, or maintaining packages in Fedora. I > would very much like to see this project become a standard feature of > GNU/Linux installs. check out obnam. I'm very pleased with it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
