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$Id: README,v 1.6 2002/02/28 12:34:22 bubuchka Exp $

CDBKUP

The cdbkup suite includes five utilities - cdbkup, cdrstr, cdsplit, cdcat and cdappend. Use the --help option or man pages for help.

DEPENDENCIES

For this package to work you must have installed at least perl, cdrecord, mkisofs, and GNU tar. To do remote backups, you'll also need an ssh client.

For view compatibility table refer to the COMPLIANCE file.

INSTALLATION

To install cdbkup, you must walk through two steps:

1. Configuring package.

   The GNU tar version 1.13 has a bug with --listed-incremental. This bug appears in Linux (Slackware 7, 8; other?). See the COMPLIANCE file for more info. You can work around the problem by applying the provided

   patch

$ patch < linuxtar_13.patch

After this procedure you can configure whole package. In this step just

type

$ ./configure

for basic configuration.
The configure script accepts the --with-snardir=DIR option. This DIR is a directory which will contain any *.snar and *.info files. The user who makes backups must have write access to this directory. For security reasons, this directory should not have read/write permissions for other. You can define the user and group properties with the --with-dumper=USER and --with-dumpgrp=GROUP options. The default values are "root" and "operator" respectively.

$ ./configure --with-snardir=/usr/home/iam/snarfiles \

--with-dumper=iam --with-dumpgrp=mygroup

2. Installation.

After configuration made just install package with root privileges:

# make install

3. Enjoy!

GET CDBKUP

You can get the cdbkup utility in three ways.

1. HTTP. http://cdbkup.sourceforge.net - project main site http://mishka.terabyte.com.ua - mirror for releases (Ukraine, 10M/s)
2. FTP. ftp://batraq.anything3d.com - ftp mirror (Ukraine, 56K/s)
3. CVS. cvs.cdbkup.sourceforge.net - Main CVS repository.

   Login as "anonymous" in "CVS pserver": $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.cdbkup.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cdbkup login

   Next, do checkout with command: $ cvs -z3 [-r TAG] -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.cdbkup.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cdbkup co cdbkup

   You can know available tags by browsing CVS repository at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cdbkup

   Updates can be made with following command: $ cvs -z3 [-r TAG] update -P -d

   Please refer to Cederqvist or CVS documentation page for learning more: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/

DEVELOPERS

John-Paul Gignac <jp@gignac.org>
Mike M. Volokhov <mishka@terabyte.com.ua>