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A lightweight low-level time machine backup utility for Linux
I created this Equilibrium
the low-level backup tool because at my workplace has a terrible IT culture. That backing data is an optional practice. This tool helps me to incrementally backup changes on my working computer at volume-level with time and date stamps. Go visit my Github repository page and give a star if you like it.
Equilibrium
is a completely built on top of Rsync
, a very straight forward and lightweight, but not sacrificing the backup performance or even hogging the host system. And I also can even configure with the crontab
to schedule the backup.
The custom codes are fully utilized all the Rsync
API goodness that gives you these amazing features:
- Each backup volume is determined by date per backup session.
- Continuously resume backup with a marker system.
- Auto generates a path to the latest backup volume.
- Auto excludes residual files and directories.
- Generate statistics after the finished the backup session.
The volume-level backup files structure that looks like below:
. /2019-08-17-144927/ (e.g. volume 1) /2019-08-17-154805/ (e.g. volume 2) /2019-08-17-155055/ (e.g. volume 3) backup.inprogress (resume indicator) backup.marker (resume marker data) latest (endpoint to latest backup)
Setup
Let's launch a new Terminal and clone the repository at Github,
$ git clone https://github.com/loouislow81/equilibrium.git$ cd equilibrium
Install
Run this command to install to use system-wide,
$ sudo ./equilibrium --install
If you prefer a binary version, go download binary.
Configure
After installed, you can run without using the ./
and it is ready to run system-wide. You will need to edit /etc/equilibrium.conf
for the first time, change whatever necessary to suit your backup behavior. The source and target directories, transfer bandwidths, etc.
(!!) Value for
bandwidth_limit
is inkBytes
, value50000
is50 MBytes/s
transfer rate by default.
$ sudo equilibrium --config
The above command will open file /etc/equilibrium.conf
with the default text editor in the Terminal that looks like below,
##### configurations for `backup` scriptUSER="loouis"BACKUP_SOURCE="/home/${USER}"BACKUP_MEDIUM="/media/${USER}/EX-VOLUME-A"BACKUP_DESTINATION="${BACKUP_MEDIUM}/.backup/usr-${USER}"##### configuration for `equilibrium-core` scriptbandwidth_limit=50000exclusion_list='/etc/equilibrium-exclusion.list'
Exclusion
To exclude files, directories, or extensions from the backup session. It also came with pre-defined settings with several examples,
$ sudo equilibrium --exclusion
First Backup
When you are ready, start the backup session with this command,
$ sudo equilibrium --run
Screenshots
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Original Link: https://dev.to/loouislow/a-lightweight-low-level-time-machine-backup-utility-for-linux-23mh
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