Re: [bu-users] is this list still alive? (status of bu/rbu)

[Rajesh M. <raj...@ya...>]

Vincent, 


I too have been using bu since 2002. For the first 5 years or so I was using it in a startup to backup about 6 servers with about 1.5TB of data and for the past 2 years have been using it for my personal data (couldn't find anything better :-). Imade several enhancements to bu in 2002 so that it would meet my requirements. Some of them were
- incremental backup where the include list only contained files that were changed since the last backup. I found this to be significantly faster than using the -i option.
- incremental backup of files changed since a specified time

- compress backed up files
- keep previous versions of each file (option to compress) with the number specified in the config file (some more work and bu could have Time Machine functionality)


Since the data was constantly changing, I also created cu (cleanup) from bu which deleted files from the backup disk which are no longer there in the original directories. I did try to add the cu functionality to bu but ended up breaking bu badly, so I just created a new script.

Just like Jorge I haven't found anything better than bu yet.

Thanks for your work. I can email you my version if you'd like.

Rajesh




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> From: Vincent Stemen <bu...@hi...>
>To: b-u...@li... 
>Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 11:32 AM
>Subject: Re: [bu-users] is this list still alive? (status of bu/rbu)
> 
>On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 09:34:22PM -0400, Jorge F?bregas wrote:
>> On 07/15/2012 02:05 AM, Vincent Stemen wrote:
>> > Greetings Jack and others that are still lurking on this list.
>> 
>> Hello Vincent , Jack & the others that are still around.
>> 
>> I just wanted to mention that I've been using bu for 10 years now (along
>> with rbu when it came out).  I can't believe that I haven't changed my
>> main backup program for 10 years!  During those years I changed Linux
>> distros, mail-clients, web browsers and so on but never the backup
>> program.  Why?  The bu/rbu combination has been rock solid and it has
>> served me very well.
>> 
>> Once again, thanks for creating this Vincent.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Jorge
>
>Thank you for the feedback.  It's always good to hear that my work is
>benefiting others.
>
>Vincent
>
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