[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Remote Storage

[steven . mooij]

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Steven Mooij <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Remote Storage
System name: rest
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
This project aims at a script that performs automatic 
never-to-worry-about-again backups. 

As it has to be a ntwaa solution, I chose a harddisk as backup medium, a 
harddisk on another host so that in cases of fire etc...

Another requirement is that, once a backup is made by a user, it should  be 
possible to protect it from deletetion by the same user. Otherwise, if this 
user\'s account were hacked the backup data would be comprimized.

As in my opinion it is only useful to backup plain user-data (and not installed 
programs etc.), only file content and modification time are to be preserved. 
Other meta-info (like e.g. owner, rights and access time) wil be discarded.

Storing files on the backup host is based on a principle that I copied from 
\'faubackup\': To save space, identical files are not doubly stored, but hard 
linked.

It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.

Other Software Required:
So far:
perl
ssh/scp


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