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rbackup - An rsync-based backup tool
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A tool that automates the use of rsync and extra features for package manager backups.
Features
--------
* Snapshot-based backup management
* Backups of deleted and modified files
* Creation of installed package lists and backup of package manager databases
Advanced Features
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* rbackup depends on the filesystem that stores the repository to provide features such as checksumming, deduplication, and data integrity verification
* Encryption must be handled by an external program, this is out of scope for rbackup
* xattrs and acl's are handled by rsync but must be a supported feature of the filesystem the repository is stored on
Target Directories
------------------
* /boot/loader
* /etc
* /home
* /root
* /var
* /var/lib
* /var/log
* Extras
* Installed packages
* Package manager databases
Backup Directory Hierarchy
--------------------------
basedir
├── current
└── data
├── snapshot-one
│   ├── boot
│   ├── etc
│   ├── home
│   ├── pkg
│   └── root
└── snapshot-two
├── boot
├── etc
├── home
├── pkg
└── root
* Assuming snapshot2 was the previous backup and snapshot1 was the backup before that:
* current would link to snapshot2
* Unchanged files files from snapshot1 backed up to snapshot2 are hardlinked to snapshot1
Implementation Notes
--------------------
* pathlib is used for path handling
* Only absolute paths are used internally for consistency
* Use --link-dest=
* When hardlinking, rbackup passes the entire path to avoid needing relative paths
* The backup script changes the process umask to 0000 to determine the file modes for the files it writes i.e. snapshots
To-do
-----
* Add __enter__ and __exit__ for PackageManager lockfiles to prevent transactions during backup
* Create snapshot manipulation script
* Interactive cleanup script
* Repository.__delitem__()
* Repository.delete_snapshot(name)
* Test functions in config module
* load_list_from_option()
Dependencies
------------
Runtime
^^^^^^^
* rsync
Build/Testing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* pytest
* setuptools
* hypothesis