FreeBSD Ports

sysutils/flexbackup 1.2.1_8

Perl-based flexible backup system that can use dump/afio/cpio/tar

Repository
FreeBSD ports
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
GPLv2+
Categories
sysutils
Package size
70.4 KiB, 260.2 KiB installed

Description

A flexible backup tool

Features: o Easy to configure o Uses dump, afio, GNU tar, cpio, pax, or zip archivers o Full and numbered levels of incremental backup (acts like "dump") o Compression and buffering options for all backup types o Does remote filesystems (over rsh/ssh; no special service) o Can backup only files not owned by rpm, or changed from rpm version o Writes to tapes, on-disk archive files, or on-disk directory trees o Keeps a table of contents so you know archives are on each tape o Nice log files

You can get additional information about remote backup strategies using SSH at http://www.sysfault.org/flexbackup.html

Install

As a binary package — by origin, or by package name:

pkg install sysutils/flexbackup
pkg install flexbackup

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/flexbackup/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	flexbackup>0:sysutils/flexbackup

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repositoryaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest1.2.1_81.2.1_81.2.1_71.2.1_81.2.1_8
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.2.1_81.2.1_8n/a1.2.1_81.2.1_8
FreeBSD:15:latest1.2.1_81.2.1_8n/a1.2.1_81.2.1_8
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.2.1_81.2.1_8n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:latest1.2.1_81.2.1_8n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterlyn/an/an/an/an/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Runtime 1

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

All build dependencies 1
All run dependencies 4

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: sysutils_flexbackup

OptionDefaultDescription
AFIOoffEnable afio support
BUFFERoffEnable buffer support
DOCSoffBuild and/or install documentation
MBUFFERoffEnable mbuffer support
ZIPoffEnable zip support
USES
cpe perl5
Service scripts
none

Message after installing

Flexbackup needs to have its configuration file placed in
/usr/local/etc.  A template copy of this configuration file
has been installed into

  /usr/local/etc/flexbackup.conf.sample

Please copy this file to

  /usr/local/etc/flexbackup.conf

Edit this file appropriately on all machines where you will
run flexbackup.

NOTE: The flexbackup.conf file will not be removed or overwritten
      by future package removals or upgrades once you have
      customized it.

Also see /usr/local/share/doc/flexbackup/README
for more information on how to use flexbackup. Man pages have
also been written and included in this version of the port!

===>   NOTICE:

The flexbackup port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing

Files

Manual pages 2
  • flexbackup(1)
  • flexbackup.conf(5)
pkg-plist 9
  • bin/flexbackup
  • etc/flexbackup.conf.sample
  • share/man/man1/flexbackup.1.gz
  • share/man/man5/flexbackup.conf.5.gz
  • share/doc/flexbackup/CHANGES
  • share/doc/flexbackup/CREDITS
  • share/doc/flexbackup/README
  • share/doc/flexbackup/TODO
  • share/doc/flexbackup/faq.html
distinfo 1
FileSizeSHA256
flexbackup-1.2.1.tar.gz8015858282b21985be75f1219c5ff4906d217055ed8627ea3e2ffdfe7a2393bc9d2c3
Master sites 2
  • http://www.edwinh.org/flexbackup/tarball/
  • http://www.reynoldsnet.org/flexbackup/tarball/

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