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=== Description ===
=== Description ===
==== Affa features at a glance ====
* Makes full backups with every scheduled run
* Keeps configurable number of scheduled, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly full backup archives
* Using rsync with optional compression for low traffic allows backups over the internet/VPN
* Uses hardlink technique, i.e. physical disk space only needed for the differences between two full backups
* Backup jobs are started by crond
* Backups the default e-smith directories/files with property SMEServer set to yes
* Additional directories/files can be included
* Directories/files can be excluded from the backup
* Non-SME server linuxes can be backuped by setting SMEServer property to no and using a include list
* Configurable nice level for rsync processes on backup and source server
* Optional run of custom programs before and after a job run (e.g. running tape backup)
* Checks the disk space left after a job run with warning levels strict, normal or risky
* Extensive checking of failure conditions
* Sends failure messages to a configurable list of email addresses
* Sends warning message, if the backup server run out of disk space
* Installs an optional watchdog on the source server for the case the backupserver fails
* Watchdog sends warning, if an expected backup did not run
* Watchdog sends a daily reminder message, if the error continues unchecked
* Option to display current status of all jobs showing times of last and next run
* Option to display reports of all stored backups shown size, tranferred volume, disk usage and more
* Report can be sent to the configured email addresses
* Option to send the public DSA key to the source server
* Option to rise the backup server to a production server from a backup. For SME only
* The rise option does not physically move data and therefore is extremly fast and needs no disk space
* Rise option can be run remotely as the ethernet drivers of the backup server are preserved
* Compares installed RPMs on source with backup server. Sends warning message, if not in sync
* Undo rise option to restore the backup server
* Configurable via a e-smith style db, with one record for each job and a default record for all jobs
* Logs in /var/log/affa with optional debug switch for high verbosity
* Log files are rotated weekly, with 5 logs kept
=== Installation ===
=== Installation ===