BackUp Tool, aka but
by Elie De Brauwer
News
but is discontinued due to lack of time
but v0.3 is released may 11th 2004, thanks to a new developer Ciprian Motricala Get it here
but v0.2 is released december 3rd 2002!
but v0.0.1 is released december 1st 2002! v0.1.1 contains a small date bugfix!.
but v0.1 is released november 12th 2002! What is but?
but is a small Perl script that makes creating periodical backups of certains directory's easy, but was made to be run by cron. But creates a tar of a directory/project, compares the md5sum of that tar with the latest backup made, if there is a mismatch the new backup is added. How to but
Download the archive, extract it edit the configfile called but.conf
SENDMAIL=user@host
TARPATH=/bin/tar
MD5PATH=/usr/bin/md5sum
LOGFILE=/home/helios/.butlog
BACKUPDIR=/home/helios/backup
PROJECT=project1=/home/helios/project1
PROJECT=project2=/home/helios/project2
EXCLUDEPATH=/home/helios/project1/exclude/
That's all there is to it, you can find the path to tar by typing whereis tar and the path to md5sum by typing whereis md5sum at your shell. Logfile is the place where but can store it's logfile, all communication happens thru this file, if something goes wrong and but doesn't give any output consult this file for errors. Backupdir is the place where but may store is backups, this directory is used for temporary archives (in a subdirectory tmpbut which is created and removed during the execution progress). Project consits of two fields, the first field is the projectname and is also the name of the subdirectory created in the backupdir directory, the second field is the path to the project. If you want to recieve e-mail reports put your e-mail behind SENDMAIL= if you do not wish to recieve e-mail reports simply put 'no' there. (SENDMAIL=no). Set the exludepath to a directory you don't want included in your archives. Please note that everything is case sensitive! Please note that if you plan to run but from cron, you need to edit but.pl and put the absolute path of the config file in it, not the relative path that stands there by default. What's new
In but v3.0 there is now a possibility to send status e-mail and an exclude filelist can be used.