First off, I'm not familiar with sbackup. That being said, I think this could be a nice project to do for the computer clubs. It'd be fairly easy (again, I think) to write a script to do what you'd really like to do (once you decide what that is, which is part of the project). To make things easy, I'm thinking of a process which would take (read from a configuration file) a list of directories where user 'stuff' is located (/home and whatever else) and burn a normal CD of all the stuff. This would not be difficult. Then the files would be accessible in a fashion that most users are familiar with. That's the simple version. Variations to the process could be added as enhancements. What say you? Dazed_75 wrote: > I was asked to look into sbackup (from the Google summer of code 2005) > as a backup tool. I have installed it on ubuntu 6.10 from the default > repositories. The intent was related to individual users in the various > computer clubs. Some of these folks have single computers while others > have small networks of systems. > > On first look, I thought it not appropriate for most individuals since > it could not write to CD/DVD yet and other means were mostly network > based. In addition, the backup are owned by and only accessible to root > (see bottom of message). Even though this is proper considering the > default inclusions for the backup, it might be a hardship and/or > confusion for a typical user. > > I raise 2 questions: > 1 - Does anyone have experience(s) or opinions with sbackup they can share? > 2 - How could one best write these root owned files to a CD (Note: > multisession would be ideal so the incremental backups can just be added > as they occur)? > > FYI, this is a listing showing the directories and files resulting from > 2 backups (notice the second seems to indicate being incremental): > > root@lapdog1:~# ls -alF /var/backup > total 16 > drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2006-11-20 16:33 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2006-11-14 21:27 ../ > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2006-11-14 21:28 > 2006-11-14_21.27.23.273683.lapdog1.ful/ > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2006-11-20 16:34 > 2006-11-20_16.33.31.784390.lapdog1.inc/ > root@lapdog1:~# ls -alF > /var/backup/2006-11-14_21.27.23.273683.lapdog1.ful/ > total 32300 > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2006-11-14 21:28 ./ > drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2006-11-20 16:33 ../ > -rw------- 1 root root 218 2006-11-14 21:27 excludes > -rw------- 1 root root 32152144 2006-11-14 21:28 files.tgz > -rw------- 1 root root 539775 2006-11-14 21:27 flist > -rw------- 1 root root 279222 2006-11-14 21:27 fprops > -rw------- 1 root root 36344 2006-11-14 21:28 packages > -rw------- 1 root root 4 2006-11-14 21:28 ver > root@lapdog1:~# ls -alF > /var/backup/2006-11-20_16.33.31.784390.lapdog1.inc/ > total 4656 > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2006-11-20 16:34 ./ > drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2006-11-20 16:33 ../ > -rw------- 1 root root 39 2006-11-20 16:34 base > -rw------- 1 root root 218 2006-11-20 16:33 excludes > -rw------- 1 root root 4613109 2006-11-20 16:34 files.tgz > -rw------- 1 root root 46465 2006-11-20 16:34 flist > -rw------- 1 root root 29318 2006-11-20 16:34 fprops > -rw------- 1 root root 36344 2006-11-20 16:34 packages > -rw------- 1 root root 4 2006-11-20 16:33 ver > > > -- > Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't > matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss