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flexbackup is a flexible backup tool. flexbackup is for you if you have a single or small number of machines, amanda is "too much", and tarring things up by hand isn't nearly enough...Here are some key features of "flexbackup":· Easy to configure· Uses dump, afio, GNU tar, cpio, star, pax, or zip archivers· Full and numbered levels of incremental backup (acts like "dump")· Compression and buffering options for all backup types· Does remote filesystems (over rsh/ssh; no special service)· Package delta mode can backup files not owned by rpm, or owned+changed files.· Writes to tapes, on-disk archive files, or on-disk directory trees· Keeps a table of contents so you know what archives are on each tape· Nice log filesRequirements:· perl· fileutils, findutils (a "find" capable of using the -regex switch)· one or more of dump/restore, afio, GNU tar, star, pax, cpio, zip· mt (if using tapes)· gzip, bzip2, lzop, or compress (optional)· buffer (optional) UsagePlease see "flexbackup -help" and the config file comments, or theflexbackup(1) and flexbackup.conf(5) manpages. There are many usefuloptions that aren't appropriate to describe here.To do a full backup of /home: flexbackup -dir /homeFor nightly incremental backups, run something like this via cron: flexbackup -set all -level 9To do a full backup of /usr from machine "otherhost", forcing cpio type: flexbackup -dir otherhost:/usr -type cpioTo do an level 5 incremental backup of a named backup set: flexbackup -set backupset2 -level 5Extract all files from file number 1 on the tape into current directory: flexbackup -extract -num 1Compare afio archive at current tape position with the currentdirectory: flexbackup -compare -type afioExtract files listed in "restorelist" from an on-disk file: flexbackup -extract home.0.19990930.afio -flist restorelistList what backups are on this tape: flexbackup -toc

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