The tawkback Backup and Restore Scripts / News: Recent posts

tawkback provides shell scripts that automate the most common backup tasks performed with tar and find. Release 0.8.0 improves performance and stability and brings the project to beta status.

The tawkback project aims to provide, once and for all, generalized scripts that do backups with tar and find. To achieve the reliability expected of a backup system, the best script coding practices are used and functionality is delegated to existing utilities whenever possible.... read more

tawkback provides shell scripts that automate the most common backup tasks performed with tar and find. Release 0.7.0 adds network support and archive encryption to facilitate offsite backups.

The tawkback project aims to provide, once and for all, generalized scripts that do backups with tar and find. To achieve the reliability expected of a backup system, the best script coding practices are used and functionality is delegated to existing utilities whenever possible.... read more

Dec 16 2002 marks the first commit of tawkback files to sourceforge.

The scripts twb and twr are in used and have been tested on two systems, Redhat 7.1 and Debian 3.0. Hopefully before the first release, which will be called version 0.6, some testing on other systems can take place. That will depend upon whether or not any feedback is received from pre-release downloads from the sourceforge cvs.

The only other remaining task is completion of the users manual, which is the priority job right now.