storebackup
storebackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks. It includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditional full and incremental backups. It also can handle big image files with block-wise changes efficiently. Depending on its contents, every file is stored only once on disk. It includes tools for analyzing backup data and restoring. Once archived, files are accessible by mounting filesystems (locally, or via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure.
| Tags | Archiving Compression backup |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | Unix POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 24 May 2009 13:31
Changes: This version features better checking of file changes during the backup, man pages, and improved documentation. It introduces the options checkBlocksParallel, checkDevicesParallel, suppressWarning, and linkToRecent. There are several bugfixes and enhancements in different programs. If you are using 3.0, you should upgrade. Since version 3.1-rc1, code cleanups were done.
- 11 May 2009 16:59
Changes: This version features better checking of file changes during the backup and man pages. It introduces the options checkBlocksParallel, checkDevicesParallel, suppressWarning, and linkToRecent. There are several bugfixes and enhancements in different programs. If you are using 3.0, you should upgrade.
- 15 Mar 2009 18:54
Changes: This release has minor bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.
- 23 Feb 2009 12:07
Changes: This version is able to store big image files like mbox files and vmware images efficiently. This pre-release fixes some bugs from rc1 which can result in not backing up some files in some rare cases. If you use 3.0-rc1, you should install this version.
- 11 Jan 2009 13:47
Changes: This version adds consistency checking of backups and the ability to store complete devices (e.g. from truecrypt) or big image files (e.g. from VMware or Xen) with changes in parts from backup to backup efficiently.
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Recent commentsI really like the idea of storebackup. It seems to provide almost all of the features I need in a backup program and I've looked at a lot of alternatives. However, I have a problem. I've backed up the home directory of one of my machines (call it machine A) onto a remote machine using latelinks and then have run BackupUpdateBackup.pl on the remote machine. All of this seemed to work fine. Then I tried to backup another machine (machine B) which has significant numbers of files in common with machine A,again with the latelink option. That backup too seemed to have worked. But when I run BackupUpdateBackup.pl with the interactive and autorepair options on B's backup directory (which I was forced to do because it would not run otherwise) I keep getting a message saying that it is "repeating consistency check" and an error saying "1 directory has no linkFrom entry" followed by an autorepair. This process has been running for over a week now. The messages give me no indication that the program is not in a loop, since it does not show whether it is fixing different entries. How can I find out whether this process is ever going to finish?
Not on SF
The latest version doesn't seem to be on any SF download server including osdn
Sean
Re: Latest Release
> Can you upload the files to SF so I can
> try your software as thet currnet ones
> are 0 bytes long.
Sorry. I can and will do this in about 12 hours. The release software at sourceforge didn't work properly that day and I believed everything was okay when I saw the file name ...
Latest Release
Can you upload the files to SF so I can try your software as thet currnet ones are 0 bytes long.