flexbackup 1.2.1 review

flexbackup is for you if you have a single or small number of machines, amanda is "too much", and tarring things up by hand isn't nea

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 82K Developer: Paul Holcomb

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flexbackup is for you if you have a single or small number of machines, amanda is "too much", and tarring things up by hand isn't nearly enough...

Here are some key features of "flexbackup":
Easy to configure
Uses dump, afio, GNU tar, cpio, star, pax, or zip archivers
Full and numbered levels of incremental backup (acts like "dump")
Compression and buffering options for all backup types
Does remote filesystems (over rsh/ssh; no special service)
Package delta mode can backup files not owned by rpm, or owned+changed files.
Writes to tapes, on-disk archive files, or on-disk directory trees
Keeps a table of contents so you know what archives are on each tape
Nice log files


Requirements:
perl
fileutils, findutils (a "find" capable of using the -regex switch)
one or more of dump/restore, afio, GNU tar, star, pax, cpio, zip
mt (if using tapes)
gzip, bzip2, lzop, or compress (optional)
buffer (optional) [needs patches or recompile for 2+GB file support]


Usage

Please see "flexbackup -help" and the config file comments, or the
flexbackup(1) and flexbackup.conf(5) manpages. There are many useful
options that aren't appropriate to describe here.

To do a full backup of /home:

flexbackup -dir /home

For nightly incremental backups, run something like this via cron:

flexbackup -set all -level 9

To do a full backup of /usr from machine "otherhost", forcing cpio type:

flexbackup -dir otherhost:/usr -type cpio

To do an level 5 incremental backup of a named backup set:

flexbackup -set backupset2 -level 5

Extract all files from file number 1 on the tape into current directory:

flexbackup -extract -num 1

Compare afio archive at current tape position with the current
directory:

flexbackup -compare -type afio

Extract files listed in "restorelist" from an on-disk file:

flexbackup -extract home.0.19990930.afio -flist restorelist

List what backups are on this tape:

flexbackup -toc