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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:03 PM Subject: looking for backup suggestions > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDwGTl7s9z/XlyUyARApl2AKCBujh/HeGH3IsUREK89w1Y9FaXLACgikZb > T/8He5pW01CaweggTX1sIFw= > =JSZH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
