Free System Backup Suite for Linux

Ever came across the miserable situation of "shit, I don't have a backup"? Imagine what a "sudo rm / -Rf" could do to your system in a few seconds! Would you be able to get your system running again within minutes? No? Then systembackup suite is probably exactly what you need! Give it a try, it is kept simple, stupid (KISS).

After untaring the downloaded backup suite with tar -xzf systembackup-suite-0.1-rc.tar.gz, follow these steps:

To perform a backup, run ./backup.sh. This will generate a TAR file
which includes everything you need to restore the saved system state
from a Linux live or rescue system. What you do to go backup to the
system state that was saved within the TAR file is to tar -xf FILENAME
the generated file on the Linux rescue system. This will create a
directory called FILENAME (without the extension). You only have to cd
to it and call the ./restore.sh script. It is important that you know
where you mounted your former / partition as the script will
interactivley ask you where to put the backuped system.

systembackup-suite-0.1 is Free Software and you may exert it under the
terms of the GPL as distributed with your systembackup suite copy.

The current development state is systembackup-suite-0.1-rc. Get yourself a copy.

As always, feedback is heavily appreciated!

Kommentare

backup run's fine so far, ist creates a
complete-systembackup-2006-06-09.tar

restoring with
tar -cf myrestoredir complete-systembackup-2006-06-09.tar
could not work :-( -c (create a tar file)
i'm assuming tar -xf
tar xf complete-systembackup-2006-06-09.tar
which extracts the archive to a folder named complete-systembackup-2006-06-09 but no restore.sh :-( visable when i walk ind that tar-file with midnightcommander (mc) or if i extrect it :-(

running on debian sarge within a linux-vserver


jens

thanks for you're work, i he it helps

It looks like you're forgot to put restore.sh into
the download systembackup-suite-0.1-alpha.tar.gz
;-)
jens

Thanks, Jens. I resolved the issues in systembackup-suite-0.1-rc which is available for download as of now.

Hello,

nice script thank you!!!

This will create a directory called FILENAME (without the extension). You only have to cd
to it and call the ./restore.sh script

greetz

Carsten

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