Backup Manager
Backup Manager is a command line backup tool for GNU/Linux, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. Written in bash and perl, it can make archives in lots of open formats (tar, gzip, bzip2, lzma, dar, zip) and provides lots of interesting features (such as network exports or CD/DVD automated-burning).
The program is designed to be as easy to use as possible and is popular with desktop users and sysadmins. The whole backup process is defined in one full-documented configuration file which needs no more than 5 minutes to tune for your needs. It just works.
Releases
Backup Manager is maintained in two branches:
Documentation
Backup Manager comes with a user-guide available in different format, you can check the online version, or downlad the PDF one. There is one version of the user-guide per release branch:
Mailing Lists
You can follow the project thanks to a couple of mailing lists.
One mailing list is dedicated to users: backup-manager-users@backup-manager.org
One mailing list is dedicated to developers: backup-manager-devel@backup-manager.org
You can also follow commits with backup-manager-commits@backup-manager.org
Development
The Backup Manager's source code is handled with Subversion, you can checkout the repository with the following command:
- svn co svn://svn.backup-manager.org/backup-manager/trunk
You can also browse the SVN tree with websvn.
Reporting Bugs
We try to make Backup Manager as bugfree as possible but bugs are always possible. If you find a bug, please take the time to report it to our bug tracking system.
Before filling a bug report, please make sure it's not yet reported for avoiding duplicates. You can check the list of current open bugs for that.
If you don't find a report for the problem, feel free to report it with our Bugzilla.
You can also reach the development team on IRC, using the server irc.oftc.net and the channel #backup-manager