[tahoe-dev] lafs-backup-tool, an alternative to "tahoe backup"

[erpo41 at gmail.com]

Looks neat. Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi, list.
>
> I'd like to announce one more bikeshe^W lafs-related project -
> lafs-backup-tool.
>
> Most features and design goals should be described in README and
> base configuration file, where they're controlled.
>
>   https://github.com/mk-fg/lafs-backup-tool
>
> https://github.com/mk-fg/lafs-backup-tool/blob/master/lafs_backup/core.yaml
>
> Intended usage is a poor man's offsite backups with low-space grids,
> like cloud backends, where one has to be picky about what is important
> enough to backup (hence the filtering facilities) and benefits from
> such things as compression (configurable for file paths and sizes).
>
> I use it on local backups, already made by rsync from a live
> filesystem, so there's no extra effort to control what's backed-up
> first (GridBackup project allows that), as paths are assumed to be
> static.
>
> Like "tahoe backup", local deduplication database is kept for
> performance reasons.
>
> Unlike "tahoe backup", internally it works without recursion and does a
> topdown tree traversal using simple os.walk() (and not traversing
> excluded paths), building (one line at a time) queue-file, then just
> flipping it upside-down using simple coreutils "tac" binary to produce
> depth-first queue.
>
> Since I tend to occasionally use ACLs and capabilities, these are also
> backed-up (along with general uid/gid/mode metadata), which is
> implemented through ad-hoc cffi bindings.
>
> Closest plan is to add restoration functionality, which can currently
> be done with standard tahoe access tools, with one additional step of
> running "file && xz -d" on the paths (though encoding information is
> stored in the filenode metadata and/or detailed logs).
>
> Any commentaries, reports, accusations and lamentations are, of course,
> welcome. I'm also known as MK_FG on #tahoe-lafs @ freenode IRC.
>
>
> --
> Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
>
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