Tarsnap for Debian and Ubuntu

Create your own tarsnap client .deb for Debian or Ubuntu.

Tested on Debian 7.0, Ubuntu 12.04, and Ubuntu 14.04.

Quickstart

Package the default version of tarsnap:

./build.sh

Package a specific version of tarsnap:

./build.sh 1.0.35

Backup a system:

dpkg -i tarsnap*.deb
sudo tarsnap-keygen --machine $(hostname) \
    --keyfile /etc/tarsnap.key \
    --user tarsnap-user@example.com
sudo tarsnap -cf etc-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M) /etc

Details

This project doesn't include the tarsnap client source code. Instead, build.sh downloads it from tarsnap.com.

While it is safest to build packages as a non-privileged user, if you like to live dangerously build.sh installs dependencies when run by a user with sudo privileges.

To build as a non-privileged user:

sudo apt-get install build-essential debhelper lintian
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev e2fslibs-dev
sudo apt-get install libacl1-dev libattr1-dev libbz2-dev liblzma-dev
sudo useradd -m builduser
sudo cp -r tarsnap-deb/ ~builduser/tarsnap-deb
sudo chown -R builduser: ~builduser/tarsnap-deb
sudo -i -u builduser
cd ~/tarsnap-deb
./build.sh
mv -v *.deb /tmp
exit
ls /tmp/*.deb