Rdiff-backup

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Maintainer

Original contributor: Gordon Rowell

Last maintainer: Unnilennium

Version

Contrib 9:

0.0.1-20

smeserver-rdiff-backup

The latest version of smeserver-rdiff-backup is available in the SME repository, click on the version number(s) for more information.

Please follow the installation instructions below.

Description

rdiff-backup is a backup software. rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, modification times, extended attributes, acls, and resource forks. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults. See: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

Requirements

• SME Server 7.X, 8.X or 9.X

Installation

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-rdiff-backup

Configuration

To get the current configuration:

config show rdiff-backup

this will return something similar to :

rdiff-backup=service
   EnableLocal=yes
   EnableRemote=no
   Hour=2
   LocalPath=/media/usbdisk/rdiff-backup
   Minute=8
   RemoteHost=timtam
   RemoteIdentity=/root/.ssh/id_rsa_rdiff-backup
   RemotePath=/var/backup/rdiff-backup
   RemotePort=22
   RemoteUser=rdiff-backup
   RemoveOlderThan=6W
   status=enabled

In the configuration above, my local backup is enabled, and backs up to /media/usbdisk1/rdiff-backup/$sysconfig{SystemID}/

The remote backup is currently disabled, but backups up to a host called 'timtam' using the SSH key shown above, with target path of /var/backup/rdiff-backup/$sysconfig{SystemID}/

The remote backup is done as user 'rdiff-backup' remotely (root locally).

To enable LOCAL backups

- mount the media you want to use for backups, create the directory on the mounted device for the backup (this must be <target directory>/rdiff-backup) and then make sure /media/usbdisk/rdiff-backup is owned by rdiff-backup.

We are assuming here that your drive has a label "usbisk"

mkdir /media/usbdisk
mount /dev/disk/by-label/usbdisk /media/usbdisk 
mkdir /media/usbdisk/rdiff-backup
chown rdiff-backup:rdiff-backup /media/usbdisk/rdiff-backup

Note: On SME 7.X device with label xxxx have a folder created as /media/xxxx and a fstab entry, but are NOT automounted by default. You must mount the intended media after each bootup or the backup won't work. This mounting process may be automated in the future

Note2: Starting SME 8.X and SME 9.X folders with disk label as name are not created any,ore in /media/, it is your responsibility to create one and mount your drive.

- Set your configuration:

config setprop rdiff-backup LocalPath <whatever>/rdiff-backup
config setprop rdiff-backup EnableRemote no
config setprop rdiff-backup EnableLocal yes
config setprop rdiff-backup status enabled
expand-template /etc/crontab

To enable REMOTE backups

- install smeserver-rdiff-backup on both ends - This will create a 'rdiff-backup' user

On the machine to be backed up:

config setprop rdiff-backup RemoteHost <whatever>
config setprop rdiff-backup RemotePath <whatever>/rdiff-backup
config setprop rdiff-backup EnableRemote yes
config setprop rdiff-backup EnableLocal no
config setprop rdiff-backup status enabled
expand-template /etc/crontab

ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /root/.ssh/id_rsa_rdiff-backup -N 
expand-template /root/.ssh/config

On the backup server:

- Create OR Append /root/.ssh/id_rsa_rdiff-backup.pub to ~rdiff-backup/.ssh/authorized_keys2

Note: Permissions should also be 0400 rdiff-backup:rdiff-backup Note2: If both ends are trusted then you can put the ssh in root's .ssh directory and run the remote as root. This will mantain proper file ownership. Otherwise all the backup files are saved as the user rdiff-backup.

usermod -p '*' rdiff-backup          # This enables SSH only

Note: You can enable both Local and Remote backups at the same time. rdiff-backup will perform the local backup first then the remote.

Note: Always use a subdirectory 'rdiff-backup'. If the backup disk isn't mounted, this saves you from filling the parent filesystem.

Also see the notes here:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,35525.msg155709.html#msg155709

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-rdiff-backup component or use this link

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