Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [ANN] SafeKeep

[Kurt Yoder]

Looks like SafeKeep is a wrapper script to run rdiff-backup?

If you don't like its XML config files, you can do what I do: make a  
separate backup script for each rdiff-backup like so:

#!/bin/sh
echo
echo $0
/bin/df -l | /bin/grep -q '/backup/disk1'$
if [ $? = 1 ]; then echo 'backup volume not mounted'; exit 1; fi
/usr/bin/rdiff-backup -v0 --preserve-numerical-ids --print-statistics \
        --exclude "/home/.old" \
        --exclude "/old" \
        --exclude "/proc/*" \
        --exclude "/sys/*" \
        --exclude "/tmp/*" \
        --exclude "/tmp/.*" \
        --exclude "/usr/local/backups/*.dump.gz" \
        --exclude "/usr/local/pgsql/*.log*" \
        --exclude "/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/*" \
        --exclude "/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog/*" \
        --exclude "/usr/local/src" \
        --exclude "/usr/old" \
        --exclude "/var/lib/postgres/data/base/*" \
        --exclude "/var/lib/postgres/data/global/*" \
        --exclude "/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_clog/*" \
        --exclude "/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_xlog/*" \
        --exclude "/var/lib/postgres/data.*" \
        --exclude "/var/lib/postgres.*" \
        --exclude "/var/local/swapfile" \
        --exclude "/var/old" \
        --exclude "/var/run/postgresql/*" \
        --exclude "/var/tmp/.*" \
        --exclude "/var/tmp/*" \
        mybackedupserver.com::/ /backup/disk1/mybackedupserver/


I have around 15 of these scripts in my backup directory /var/backups/ 
rsync_scripts. There is one for each backed-up machine. A few of them  
use straight rsync instead of rdiff-backup. I use cron to invoke run- 
parts on /var/backups/rsync_scripts every evening. It's easy to set  
up, there is no configuration file format to learn, and I have  
complete control over how the backups run.

Run-parts is apparently native to Debian, but should be re-usable  
elsewhere, eg http://www.hmug.org/HowTos/Run-Parts.html.

On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:46 AM, David Kempe wrote:

> Hi Dimi,
> that looks great but there is no way I am going to use it if it has  
> xml for the config files. I have a passionate hate for using xml in  
> config files as do many sysadmins... just check out the low  
> adoption of heartbeat 2 for verification of that :)
> if you want to reconsider the design, the nagios config file format  
> with its ideas of inheritance is far superior and would map  
> beautifully to this product.
>
> despite that, I will check it out :)
>
> thanks
>
> dave
>
> Dimi Paun wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'm happy to announce a new project built around rdiff-backup:  
> > SafeKeep.
> >      http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/
>
>
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