LICENSE:
(c) 2001 Chris Arrowood (GNU LGPL V2.1) You may view the full copyright text
at: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
A simple BASH script to do nightly backups to tarballs on a hard drive (not
to tape). Ideal for home linux users to easily backup shier system, provided
they have an extra hard drive.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION:
This script is designed to run every night via a cron event. When you install
and configure the script, you chose one night a week for the script to perform
a full backup. On other nights it will only back up files that have changed
since the last full backup. All backups result in a tarball of files (compressed
if you enable it) written to a directory that you choose (best if on a different
hard drive than the one you are backing up from). Options include emailing of
results, logging, compression of backups, compression of logs, verbose mode,
quiet mode, etc.
ABOUT:
I wrote this script in August of 2001 to backup my home linux box. Although
there were many excellent backup solutions already available, I couldn't find
one to meet my needs. I wanted something to simply create a full, compressed
backup of my home RH7 Linux box every week and save that as a compressed tarball
(*.tar.gz) on a separate hard drive. I did not see any sense in buying a tape
drive for my home system when disk drives are dirt cheap, much faster, and in
my opinion, more reliable and durable.
WARRANTY:
As fully detailed in the copyright, there is no warranty of any kind on this
product. See link provided in the COPYRIGHT section above for full details.
Always thoroughly test any backup solution you choose. For what its worth, I
do use it to back up my home system.
REQUIREMENTS:
See INSTALL file. INSTALLATION: See INSTALL file.
DOWNLOAD:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplebashbu/
FUTURE:
No further development is planned on this project. Being a bash script, most
savvy users can edit it to suit their own needs. However, if substantial bugs
are found, or if enough people ask for a new feature, I will take it into consideration.
A big thank you to SOURCEFORGE.net for hosting this website and project. I can't count how many times I have found a software solution that I needed from their repository!