System tar & restore

[tritonas00]

Hi !

We working on this project and we would like to share it.

System tar & restore contains two bash scripts, backup and restore.

The purpose is to make the process of backing up and restoring a full GNU/Linux installation easier using tar or transfer an existing installation using rsync.

Supported distributions: Arch, Debian, Fedora

-CLI and Dialog interfaces
-Easy backup and restore wizards
-Uses tar / bsdtar to create and restore backups
-Creates tar.gz, tar.bz2 or tar.xz archives
-Uses rsync to transfer a running system
-Supports Grub2 and Syslinux

Documentation
Stable Releases
Changelog
Demo

You can try it in your usb flash, a second disk or virtualbox.

Worked nicely with lubuntu and kubuntu

[kevdog]

Is there audio with this file? I kind of confused. I can hardly read what is on the screen.

[tritonas00]

Is there audio with this file? I kind of confused. I can hardly read what is on the screen.

Please change video quality to 720p.

Documentation is in the Git link.

[kevdog]

Ok I watched the video -- thanks for suggestions. How does this compare to other backup options -- like rdiff-backup, duplicity, or rsnapshot? I currently exploring obnam on arch and I think its pretty cool I haven't done any mission critical backups.

[tritonas00]

Thanks for watching.

It uses tar to create and restore backups, or rsync to "on the fly" transfer the system.

Then it generates fstab, rebuilds initramfs for every available kernel, regenerates locales and installs a bootloader (grub2 or syslinux)

More info in the documentation

[kevdog]

Sounds like a great project and something I'm going to check out!!

[tritonas00]

Updated to 3.1

Added raid support, log for restoring process, tar / rsync progress info and many other improvements.

Enjoy