Current buildstatus:

Canonical source

The canonical source of psnapshot is hosted on gitLab.com.

psnapshot

psnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems—much like rsnapshot. However, unlike rsnapshot, psnapshot is not installed on the backup server, but on client machine. This gives the user the possibility to create backups to a server which are not under their control and on which they cannot install additional software.

Apart from the difference outlined above, psnapshot resembles rsnapshot quite well. The configuration file should look familiar, and the benefits of rsnapshot are kept as well:

• rsync for efficient data transfer
• hard links for efficient storage
• no tapes to changes
• only a configureable number of snapshots are kept, to ensure the amount of used disk space will not keep on growing

Installation

Manually

1. Make sure you have to the latest version downloaded
   • Download the latest release.
   • Clone the repo: git clone git://github.com/schutm/psnapshot.git.
2. Copy psnapshot to place in the path (normally /usr/local/bin/psnapshot).
3. Execute chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/psnapshot to make it executable.
4. Copy psnapshot.conf.example to /etc/psnapshot.conf.
5. Modify /etc/psnapshot.conf to reflect your preferences.
6. Add a few crontab entries (see crontab.example for an example setup).

Automatically

1. Make sure you have to the latest version downloaded
   • Download the latest release.
   • Clone the repo: git clone git://github.com/schutm/psnapshot.git.
2. Execute make sysconfdir=/etc install (use make to see more options)
3. Copy or move /etc/psnapshot.conf.example to /etc/psnapshot.conf.
4. Modify /etc/psnapshot.conf to reflect your preferences.
5. Add a few crontab entries (see crontab.example for an example setup).

Backup strategy

A sensible backup strategy for Debian is given at http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/rsnapshot.htm. Together with methods to restore after a failure.

Bug tracker

Open a new issue for bugs or feature requests. Please search for existing issues first.

Bugs or feature request will be fixed in the following order, if time permits:

1. It has a pull-request with a working and tested fix.
2. It is easy to fix and has benefit to myself or a broader audience.
3. The bug consist of not being POSIX compliant.
4. It puzzles me and triggers my curiosity to find a way to fix.

Acknowledgements

The array (add_to_list) is derived from Push(https://github.com/vaeth/push), created by Martin Väth.

Contributing

Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute.

License

This software is licensed under the ISC License.