ParanoidPackrat by jeffWelling, wnight, kelora

Paranoid Packrat is a Ruby program to help you backup multiple directories and files, to either one or more hard drives.

It is a wrapper for Rsync to make it much easier to perform backups.  We are still in development, and are exploring the many possible ways of doing things.  There are many things that we want it to do,

• Backup to destinations on remote machines via SSH
• Optional encrypted backups of various scopes (per file/dir, per backup destination, etc)
• Geolocational awareness of where your remote backups are
• If we get Geolocational awareness, you can say "I want to always have a backup of this on another continent." and it will work as long as you've configured enough remote backup destinations.
• A special IRB API for ease of use in IRB.
• Optionally use your system's mail facilities to mail you if there are errors
• Configurable redundancy across multiple hard drives
• Backups _need_ to be stored in a human browsable directory structure
• Support for disconnecting, as well as reconnecting and syncing up again backup hard drives
• Avoid unnecessary duplication in backup destinations using hardlinks (For this to work backups MUST be atomic [do not edit them/cannot edit them])
• Watch directories and files that you've backup for changes (similar to tripwire)
• Configurable backup durations ("I want to store daily backups for the last 30 days, and monthly backups until capacity")
  

Currently, it does

• Basic backups - PPIrb.simpleBackup()

Docs

The more recent documentation, which you yourself can update by clicking Update in the top right corner, is here,

And theres probably less up to date versions of those same docs over here.

There are also configuration examples in the ParanoidPackrat.default.config.rb file

Dependencies

• ruby1.8
• rsync

For the rspec specs, you will also need

• rspec

Install/Use

git clone git://github.com/jeffWelling/ParanoidPackrat.git

cd ParanoidPackrat

cp ParanoidPackrat.default.config.rb ParanoidPackrat.config.rb

Edit ParanoidPackrat.config.rb to configure your desired backups

./ParanoidPackrat.rb

License

GPL Version 3.0

Authors

jeffWelling

wnight  

kelora

Contact

jeffWelling (Jeff.Welling (a) Gmail)

I'm no web developer I'm a programmer, these pages are crude but they work.  If you'd like to submit a pull request with an improved version, I'd happily pull it in, but please don't mail me just to comment on the site.

Download

You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.

You can also clone the project with Git by running:

$ git clone git://github.com/jeffWelling/ParanoidPackrat