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
>
>
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