[Bacula-users] Framework/script for backing up specific applications

[Dan T. <da...@v2...>]

Hi -

I've been playing around with Bacula lately, and am quite simply amazed. 
  Kern, I've really got to hand it to you and your team - you have all 
put together an amazing piece of software.  Thank you for many, many 
years to come, as I dig even deeper into Bacula.

I've become a real stickler for RPM-based distributions as of late, 
specifically RHEL and CentOS.  I know that for RPMs, you can query based 
on file type of a package:

[dan@dan ~]$ rpm -qc httpd-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4
/etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/magic
/etc/logrotate.d/httpd
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
/etc/sysconfig/httpd

...for files marked as configuration files in the RPM preamble.  I'm 
sure this is possible to do with many other Linux distributions, as well.

I was wondering if - before I re-invent the wheel here - someone has 
already started on a framework for backing up application-specific, 
user-modifiable files, such as in this example Apache's httpd.* files 
and such.  I think that this would help someone who's in the situation 
of not wanting to back up an entire package, directory, or something of 
that nature - someone who simply wants to backup configuration files, 
for a drop-in replacement, when it hits the fan and comes time to restore.

Has anyone looked into this at all?  If so, I'd like to talk with you - 
if not, then I'd like to make some noise about doing something like 
this, because I can see how beneficial it might be.

Thanks!
-dant