bkdar

Written in bash, is a very simple backup tool designed for backup a system on disks attached locally (tipically USB disks).
Based on DAR (https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/), it suppports continously backup (using LVM snapshots and incremental backups).
Once installed there are only two configuration files:
- /etc/bkdar.conf where you define _how_ the backup is perfmored
- /etc/cron.d/bkdar where you define _when_ the backup is performed

Features

Based on DAR (https://sourceforge.net/projects/dar/)
Hot backup (the backup source has to be on a LVM2 logical volume and are needed some free extends on the group volume)
Incremental backup
Changing USB disk without unmount it (the device is automatically mounted/unmounted before/after the backup)
Automatically delete olds backup when the free space is lower than a parametrized amount
Self explained configuration files

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License

GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3)

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Intended Audience

System Administrators

User Interface

Command-line

Programming Language

Unix Shell

Related Categories

Unix Shell Backup Software

Registered

2012-05-14

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