Re: Re: hdup2 issues

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:55 +0200, Miek Gieben wrote:
> What I'm thinking now is the following:=20
> see how this tar/hdup2 thingy plays out and in the meantime I'm
> pondering about hdup3:
> - python based (it's really time for me to learn this :-) )
>   all the benefits of a higher language (should even run on
>   windows)
> - indeed use dar
> - not sure about any restore capability
> 
> This would yield a small fast and simple backup program.

I took a quick look for other dar-based backup programs and there are
surprisingly few -- SaraB, which is linked from the dar homepage, does
not seem to be mature or currently actively developed.  However, it may
be worth looking at its method of configuring a backup plan, if you want
to enable strategies other than monthly-weekly-daily.

Kdar, the KDE dar GUI, currently has the capability to let the user
configure a backup run using the gui, and then write it out as a
'profile' or a dar command line -- it might be an interesting strategy
to use that as the configuration method, have kdar write the
configuration information out, then just have a very light python
wrapper that could be invoked from cron to actually run the backups.

Bng
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Boris Goldowsky <[email protected]>