From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 15:49:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F44C106567F for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:49:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F6F8FC1C for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:49:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2KFnBcm054913 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:49:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <47E28777.5090907@tundraware.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:49:11 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-tundraware.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:50:58 +0000 Subject: ANN: 'tbku' 1.115 - Backup And System Imaging Tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:49:17 -0000 'tbku 1.115 is released and available at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tbku/ What Is 'tbku'? =============== 'tbku' is a utility for producing "tarball" backups of some- or all of your files. It is useful both for producing incremental backups or for systemwide images or "snapshots". The tool can be run either from the command line or, more typically, as a cron job to automate system backup tasks. 'tbku' can also be used to capture system images which can then later be used to (re)provision other machines. The distribution includes explanations of how to "image" systems from a tarball produced with 'tbku', using FreeBSD and SUSE Linux as examples. 'tbku' uses standard utilities common on Unix-like systems, like 'tar', 'sed', and 'uname'. It uses no other special or custom tools. For this reason, it is highly portable across many variants of these systems. 'tbku' was originally developed as a backup tool for FreeBSD servers. Since then, it has been updated to also work with SUSE Linux, both servers and desktops. 'tbku' should work with little- or no modification on any other Unix-like system. For example, 'tbku' will run without modification (other than default locations) in a cywgin environment under MS-Windows. There is no charge for the use of 'tbku', but please take a moment to read the licensing terms. WHATSNEW For 'tbku' 1.115 (Wed Mar 19 18:29:31 CDT 2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First public release of program and docs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/