StoreBackup 1.19 review

StoreBackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks. It includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space nee

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Heinz-Josef Claes

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StoreBackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks.

It includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditional full and incremental backups.

Depending on its contents, every file is stored only once on disk. It includes tools for analyzing backup data and restoring. Once archived, files are accessible by mounting filesystems (locally, or via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure.

Requirements:
/usr/bin/env and in you $PATH:
perl (with Berkeley DB, which is part of the common perl distribution). It should run with perl5.6 or newer.
md5sum
bzip2
cp
mknod
mount (for checking the file system type)
chattr (only if you want to use `chattr +i`)
Lastly any other compression programs e.g. gzip if you want to use them

What's New in This Release:

storeBackup.pl
in some rare cases filenames were stored with a leading slash in .md5CheckSum. I could not be simulated by me. But the bug should be fixed.
some fixes in handling of directory paths
uid and gid were not set correctly for symbolic links in the backups (in the files, not the description of the files)
formatting of file sizes with human readable number (eg. 3.5k) didn't work properly in all cases
check for symbolic links before opening temporary files
set permissions of backup root directory to 0755 (independent of umask)

storeBackupRecover.pl
could not restore directory '.' with option -r
uid and gid were not set correctly for symbolic links when restoring, instead they were changed in the file where the symlink pointed to versions are now (overall checksum):
storeBackup.pl -V => 186.1958
storeBackupls.pl -V => 173.9472
storeBackupVersions.pl -V => 174.1391
storeBackupRecover.pl -V => 216.4308
storeBackupConvertBackup.pl -V => 178.6868
storeBackupDel.pl -V => 185.7402
storeBackupMount.pl -V => 172.4720
storeBackup_du.pl -V => 73.0682
llt -V => 107.5789
multitail.pl -V => 118.2667