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Does any of you know of a good backup system written using FPC/Lazarus, working inside Linux and open source ?

Thanks,

IDo

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ik wrote

Does any of you know of a good backup system written using FPC/Lazarus, working inside Linux and open source ?

Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but Dargui ( http://dargui.sourceforge.net/ ) is a front end for the Dar archiving utility and is developed using Lazarus.

Malcolm

To manage things in a more easy way.
Even a daemon for automated backups with rsync is good. but I do not want to cli every time i need to backup. And I prefer Pascal programs then C/++ based. :)

-Michael

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Why would you want this ? In most cases rsync does a perfect job. Doing rsync with the help of Dirvish performs the backup perfectly automatic.

-Michael

ik wrote

To manage things in a more easy way.

Dirvish is _very_ easy. And the advantage of rsync is that it does an incremental backup without the need for any restore tool. A file browser just works for this

Even a daemon for automated backups with rsync is good.

You don't need a dedicated daemon. Chron is provided for this.

but I do not want to cli every time i need to backup. And I prefer Pascal programs then C/++ based. :)

So you can't use Linux. rsync is just a standard gnu tool provided with Linux. And Dirvish is just a script.

-Michael

Michael Schnell wrote

> but I do not want to cli every time i need to backup. And I prefer Pascal > programs then C/++ based. :) So you can't use Linux. rsync is just a standard gnu tool provided with Linux. And Dirvish is just a script.

I don't see anything wrong with prefering Pascal software, although I don't know any backup tool either (I don't use Backups, I have everything important in SVN).

In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:

There are windows versions too, and there is http://librsync.sourceforge.net/

I didn know Dirvish, thanks.

Even a daemon for automated backups with rsync is good. > You don't need a dedicated daemon. Chron is provided for this.

Cron is a daemon :)

Linux is about cli, like Pascal is about begin end. Cli is one tool in Linuxm but not the only tool.
Begin End is a syntax of Pascal. But Pascal is a programming language. It create programs, not syntax.

I use cli, where it is needed, but not always it? a good idea to do it. You need to find the balance where CLI is good and where you need something more.

-Michael

Ido
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So you don't back up your svn repo?

Henry

Marco van de Voort wrote

There are windows versions too, and there is http://librsync.sourceforge.net/

Even the better ...

But rsync relies on hardlinks. I do know that recent versions of NTFS do support links, but I am not sure about the features.

I do know that rsync/Dirvish can remotely backup Windows boxes, though.

-Michael

Henry Vermaak wrote

So you don't back up your svn repo?

No, assembla takes care of that. I rent a svn repo from assembla instead of hosting my own.

ik wrote

Does any of you know of a good backup system written using FPC/Lazarus, working inside Linux and open source ?

What capabilities must it have?

I have a "stupid backup program" written in Lazarus, but as the name suggests it is very very very basic (in fact it can do little more than xcopy can, with the exception that you can specify exclude filters, and it looks nicer than xcopy does <G>).

It is however fully cross-platform.

Bart

There's this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/becape/

It has some time that i don't update it but should work.

I have plans to overtake the limitations:

- Improve UTF8 file names (it was written when Lazarus does not support Unicode)
- Change from zlib to zip (use abbrevia)
- create standalone components so can be integrated in fpc programs
- Improve the code architecture (separate GUI from logic etc)

I will do an exam Wednesday that is taking my time. I hope starting next week i can work in it (along other code related tasks like fixing VTV bugs)

Luiz

Saving new snapshots of things that where change, but looking with the ability like with VCS, to have incremented backup.

I found this one: http://rsnapshot.org/ that does exactly what I? looking for. when I'll have some time, I will create for it a Lazarus interface :)

Bart

Ido

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Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote

On 22/8/2011 07:38, ik wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/becape/

Looks great (on the first glance).

Anyway, I do prefer an incremental backup system that does not need a dedicated tool for restoring. A GUI tool for the backup is not advantageous IMHO, as this is supposed to run automatically, anyway.

This: no GUI no cry (e.g.: learning curve).

-Michael