Bug#271732: RFP: dbackup -- disk-based client-server backup system (Perl)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : dbackup
Version : 1.0.3
Upstream Author : David Parrish <david-dbackup@dparrish.com>
* URL : http://www.dparrish.com/dbackup.html
* License : GPL
Description : disk-based client-server backup system (Perl)
dbackup is a disk-based client-server backup system. It works on the
principal that disks are cheaper and more reliable than tapes.
Backups are started by cron probably on a daily basis by the client.
The client backs up individual filesystems / directories with tar and
sends the result to the server, which stores them in a simple
tree-based directory structure.
Restores are trivial, either by using the supplied restore client, or
by simply copying the appropriate tar files off the server and
uncompressing them.
- Backup very large filesystems as long as you have the disk space
- Works with very large numbers of servers / filesystems
- No state is kept on the client, it's all on the server
- Backup to multiple backup servers in round-robin
- Configuration can be global or per-server
- Authentication for client restores (optional)
- Trivial procedure for restores
- Daily / Full incremental backups
Uses:
- Perl version 5.005 or above is required, but much better performance
will be seen with 5.6 or above.
- Digest::MD5
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
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