storebackup
storeBackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks. It's able to compress data, and recognize copying and moving of files and directories (deduplication), and unifies the advantages of traditional full and incremental backups. It can handle big image files with block-wise changes efficiently. Depending on its contents, every file is stored only once on disk. Tools for analyzing backup data and restoring are provided. Once archived, files are accessible by mounting file systems (locally, or via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure. Additional features are backup consistency checking, offline backups, and replication of backups.
| Tags | Archiving Compression backup |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | Unix POSIX Linux Mac OS X |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 25 Apr 2013 11:37
Release Notes: Bugs were fixed. If you use storeBackupMount.pl, you will have to adjust your options. Other scripts also have a few new options.
- 04 Oct 2012 22:25
Release Notes: This release can make an estimation if a compression might reduce the file size. E.g. when traveling, you can make backups without access to the master backup, and integrate these backups later into the central one. Backups can be replicated (automated), so you can generate copies of your backups (e.g. on another external disk). storeBackup can validate your backup via checksums. With storeBackupCheckSource.pl, it can validate unchanged files in the source directory against checksums in the backup, e.g. to recognize bit rot.
- 12 Aug 2012 18:45
Release Notes: storeBackup can validate your backup via checksums. With storeBackupCheckSource.pl, it can also validate unchanged files in the source directory against checksums in the backup to recognize e.g. bit rot. RC2 also includes some bugfixes.
- 06 Aug 2012 20:47
Release Notes: New functionality: estimation if compression will make sense; offline backups without access to central backup repository (isolated mode); replication of backups, which lets you generate an unlimited number of (time shifted) replicas of your backup(s). Some bugfixes.
- 04 Mar 2012 19:37
Release Notes: This release includes important fixes if you use lateLinks/lateCompress or de-duplication with blocked files or devices. There also are many small fixes, so it is recommend to replace version 3.2.
Recent comments
Can anyone give me an approximate expected time to backup a ~40 GB opensuse box?
I just installed storeBackup and created a configuration file mirroring closely the "backup entire linux installation" section in the manual.
I was able to successfully backup small test directory structures. When I try to run the entire machine backup it makes progress but then at a certain point (after say 20 minutes) the log file stops updating. It has now been running for about 21 hours, and I can't tell if it is stalled or just taking a long time. The last line in the log is:
PROGRESS 2009.10.12 18:26:09 8472 reading directories at depth 4
Any thoughts much appreciated,
Dennis
@billmrn
Please send an email describing your problem to me directly, so we can track it down.
I 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 ...
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