Good morning (in Colorado it's morning) Ed. Well, obviously I didn't pay attention to who sent that e-mail in the first place, that's embarrassing. I'm actually planning on trying it out today. Thanks! Nick Shaw. -----Original Message----- From: Ed Bartosh [mailto:eduard.bartosh at nokia.com] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 2:48 AM To: ext Dr. Nicholas Shaw Cc: maemo-users at maemo.org Subject: RE: incremental backups for your device with rdiff-backup Hi Nick, I wish it too. However it's not the case now. That's why I propose to use rdiff-backup instaead. For example you can have increment backups of your documents folder and you will be able to restore it at any state you want, not only the latest backup. On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 16:47 -0600, ext Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: > Thanks, Ed. Yes, I wish the Nokia backup had incremental. > > I wrote a script to copy important data to the documents folder and that is > backed up each time. > > This will, hopefully, save me the time of constantly backing up when I make > changes. > > Nick Shaw. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org] > On Behalf Of Ed Bartosh > Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:41 PM > To: maemo-users at maemo.org > Subject: incremental backups for your device with rdiff-backup > > Hi > > Is anybody interested in incremental backups for their devices? > If so, please look at rdiff-backup: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ > I found it quite easy to use and powerful. > Most attractive features from my point of view are: > - supports incremental backups and restores > - Stores only binary diffs, so storage and bandwidth efficient > - Easy to configure and use > - Works on Unix/Linux, Windows, MAC OS X > > Now a bit of configuration details : > > Requirements: > device to backup (I used N800) > PC with Linux or Windows > ssh connection from PC to device > Packages for N800: > Python (I used maemo python2.5 build from bora repository) > http://www.bartosh.org/files/librsync1_0.9.7-1_armel.deb > http://www.bartosh.org/files/rdiff-backup_1.0.5-1.maemo1_armel.deb > Exactly the same version (1.0.5) Rdiff-backup installed on the PC > > My Testing environment: > device: N800 > Old Redhat9-based system as a backup storage. > I used this howto as a configuration guide: > http://www.howtoforge.net/linux_rdiff_backup > > My configuration files: > PC side: > Ssh configuration: > ~/.ssh/config > host n800-backup > hostname 192.168.255.2 > user rdiff-backup > identityfile ~/.ssh/id_dsa > compression yes > protocol 2 > > Backup shell script: > #!/bin/sh > time rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 5 --exclude /dev --exclude /sys > --exclude > /proc --exclude /initrd --exclude /mnt/ --exclude /media n800-backup::/ > ./backup > > N800 side: > # grep rdiff-backup /etc/passwd > rdiff-backup:!:30003:100::/home/rdiff-backup: > # grep rdiff-backup /etc/sudoers > rdiff-backup ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --server > --restrict-read-only / > # cat /home/rdiff-backup/.ssh/authorized_keys > command="sudo /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --server --restrict-read-only > /",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty ssh-dss <public key> > > Couple of examples: > Usual backup session: > [ed at ed n800]$ ./backup.sh > Executing ssh -C n800-backup rdiff-backup --server > Unable to import module xattr. > Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at / > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Detected abilities for source (read only) file system: > Access control lists Off > Extended attributes Off > Mac OS X style resource forks Off > Mac OS X Finder information Off > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. > ACLs not supported on filesystem at / > Unable to import module xattr. > Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at > backup/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0 > Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. > ACLs not supported on filesystem at > backup/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system: > Characters needing quoting '' > Ownership changing Off > Hard linking On > fsync() directories On > Directory inc permissions On > High-bit permissions On > Access control lists Off > Extended attributes Off > Mac OS X style resource forks Off > Mac OS X Finder information Off > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Starting increment operation / to backup > Processing changed file . > Incrementing mirror file backup > Processing changed file etc > Incrementing mirror file backup/etc > > <a lot of linex skipped> > > Processing changed file var/log/wtmp > Incrementing mirror file backup/var/log/wtmp > Processing changed file var/tmp > Incrementing mirror file backup/var/tmp > > > real 2m38.161s > user 0m8.470s > sys 0m0.310s > > List of incremental backups: > [ed at ed n800]$ rdiff-backup --list-increments ./backup > Found 7 increments: > increments.2007-05-06T21:28:16+03:00.dir Sun May 6 21:28:16 2007 > increments.2007-05-07T00:18:33+03:00.dir Mon May 7 00:18:33 2007 > increments.2007-05-07T00:22:19+03:00.dir Mon May 7 00:22:19 2007 > increments.2007-05-07T00:30:42+03:00.dir Mon May 7 00:30:42 2007 > increments.2007-05-07T22:45:24+03:00.dir Mon May 7 22:45:24 2007 > increments.2007-05-09T21:25:18+03:00.dir Wed May 9 21:25:18 2007 > increments.2007-05-20T18:57:33+03:00.dir Sun May 20 18:57:33 2007 > Current mirror: Sat Jun 2 23:11:29 2007 > > List of changed files since 1 week: > > [ed at ed n800]$ rdiff-backup --list-changed-since 1W ./backup |wc -l > 311 > > Enjoy! > -- Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com> Nokia-M/Helsinki
