[rdiff-backup-users] ANNOUNCEMENT: rdiff-backup-tools

[rader]

In order to really wrap my head around rdiff-backup and avoid
remembering it's usage and localized arguments, I've written a set of
scripts to automate it's usage.  Refer to the output after my sig.
There is a longer tutorial/quick start in the README file.  Feel 
free to post a link on the Related Pages page.

 http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~rader/rdiff-backup-tools/README
 http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~rader/rdiff-backup-tools/

To everyone involved in rdiff-backup: please accept my HUGE thanks
for providing such a fine solution for simple backward-delta on-line
backups!

steve 
--
director of computing
department of physics
university of wisconsin

bash$ sudo mkdir -p /tmp/save/etc.mail /tmp/recover
bash$ sudo vi /usr/local/etc/rdiff-backup-tools.conf
bash$ sudo tail -2 /usr/local/etc/rdiff-backup-tools.conf
Source[1]="/etc/mail"
Destination[1]="/tmp/save/etc.mail"
bash$ sudo rdiff-backup-info list
Save set 1: save /etc/mail to /tmp/save/etc.mail
bash$ sudo rdiff-backup-save -d
Debug mode is on
Source is /etc/mail
Destination is /tmp/save/etc.mail
rdiff-backup --print-statistics /etc/mail /tmp/save/etc.mail
bash$ sudo rdiff-backup-report

Save set 1: save /etc/mail to /tmp/save/etc.mail
    Sun Nov  2 07:21:33 2008: 322.66 KB, 32 adds and 0 deletes in 0.17 secs 
(1.82 MBps)
    Sun Nov  2 07:21:33 2008: current mirror

bash$ sudo cat /var/log/rdiff-backup.summary
Saving /etc/mail to /tmp/save/etc.mail...
ElapsedTime 0.17 (0.17 seconds)
SourceFileSize 330411 (323 KB)
MirrorFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
TotalDestinationSizeChange 330411 (323 KB)
Errors 0
Throughput 1.82 MBps
bash$ sudo rdiff-backup-recover -d 0D /etc/mail /tmp/recover/etc.mail
Starting recover of /tmp/save/etc.mail to /tmp/recover/etc.mail... this may 
take awhile...
bash$ ls /tmp/recover/etc.mail/
Makefile     domaintable.db    sendmail.cf.bak   submit.cf.orig
access       helpfile          sendmail.mc       submit.mc
access.db    local-host-names  sendmail.mc.orig  submit.mc.orig
authinfo     mailertable       spamassassin/     trusted-users
authinfo.db  mailertable.db    submit.cf         virtusertable
domaintable  sendmail.cf       submit.cf.bak     virtusertable.db
bash$ cat /etc/cron.daily/rdiff-backup.cron 

( /usr/local/sbin/rdiff-backup-save -v && \
  /usr/local/sbin/rdiff-backup-expire --quiet --force ) \
  | mail -s "rdiff-backup report for $HOSTNAME" root

bash$ sudo cat /etc/logrotate.d/rdiff-backup 
/var/log/rdiff-backup.log {
    daily
    missingok
    notifempty
}