glastree 1.05 stable

Overview

Builds live backup trees, with branches for each day. Users directly browse the past to recover older documents or retrieve lost files.

Hard links serve to compress out unchanged files, while modified ones are copied verbatim. A prune utility effects a constant, sliding window.

Satoru Takabayashi has writen a similar program, in Ruby, "pdumpfs":http://namazu.org/~satoru/pdumpfs.

Installation

Edit install variables in Makefile, then 'make install' ::

# su
# make install

Examples

Backup home directory to /vol02/backup ::

# mkdir /vol02/backup
# glastree ~ /vol02/backup

You will subsequently see directories such as ::

 /vol02/backup/200105/26/blah/blah
 /vol02/backup/200105/27/blah/blah
 ...

Backup my Mail files to /backup/joe/Mail (a directory I own), everyday at 4am, keeping last 35 days ::

0 4 * * *  glastree Mail /backup/joe/Mail ; \
           glastreeprune --days=35 /backup/joe/Mail | xargs -- rm -fr

As root, backup /home; user trees will be self-owned ::

# su
# glastree /home /backup

License

Released into the public domain. I provide no warranty, accept no responsibility, etc.

Contact

Jeremy Wohl, jeremywohl at the gmail, "code homepage":https://github.com/jeremywohl/glastree.

I appreciate feedback, patches or anecdotes.

Glastree

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