- Architecture
- Miscellaneous Features
- useful to backup servers, workstations and also laptops (not always network connected computers)
- input and output strings on UTF-8 charset format only
- easy concept and structure
- system, method and report concept
- support many backup methods
- common config file and interface for configuring every backup method
- fully multi users backup system, can run under normal user accounts or root user to keep all remote file permissions
- auto erase of old backups
- powerful reporting facility
- heasily understandable backup reports
- backup speed calculation
- provide many backup information
- you can create exclusion filters using regexp expressions
- modular architecture for developers
- ALL remote backups can be specified using a standard URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers) format (ex. cifs://usr:pwd@host/share)
- auto mounting and umounting of remote cifs/smb shares
- fully localized using the standard GNU gettext framework
- Backup Methods
- Rsync
- backup of local and remote files using the beautiful and super fast 'rsync' protocol
- incremental backups
- total backups
- local backups (from source directories to destination backup directory)
- remote backups via crypted ssh, rsync daemon and smb/cifs protocols
- auto mounting/umounting of remote system shares using smb/cifs protocols
- Tar
- backup of local files into flat tar archives
- optional support for bzip2 compression
- optional support for gzip compression
- optional support for archive verify
- MySQL
- backup dumps of local or remote MySQL servers
- bzip2 compression for sql dumps
- remote databases backup into single SQL bzip2 compressed dump file
- remote databases backup splitted into multiple SQL bzip2 compressed dump files (one for each database)
- database inclusion pattern
- database exclusion pattern
- Oracle
- dumps of local or remote Oracle database servers
- bzip2 compression for sql dumps
- remote or local databases backup in a single SQL dump
- LDAP
- backup dumps of local or remote LDAP (Light Weight Directory Access Protocol) directory servers
- bzip2 compression for ldif dumps
- ldif dump of remote LDAP servers
- Tape
- backup to tape archives (ex. DAT, DLT, etc...)
- multi loader support (device changer/loader)
- eject of tape at backup end
- backup verify
- Laser Disc
- backup to misc laser compact disks
- CD/R/RW
- DVD/R/RW/RAM
- eject of device at backup end
- Wget
- can make full automated mirrors of remote HTTP or FTP servers
- can download single file or a list of files from remote HTTP or FTP servers
- Report Methods
- HTML
- a very friendly gui wil provide all infos that an administrator or an end user need
- detailed reports view
- detailed calendar view for each year
- RSS
- with the emerging RSS (Really Simple Syndication) protocol usage, you will find this report facility very useful, use it with your RSS aggregator
- EMail
- receive via email the backup reports, the subject will describe if your backup gone well or not
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