Perlbak

January 2, 2008

I have just completed a working copy of Perlbak, and uploaded it to the project directory on dev.sihnon.net. Those of you with an LDAP account on SIHNON should be able to log in and retrieve a copy via subversion (details in the Trac environment). This copy of Perlbak features the following:

• Backup files from
  • directories
  • MySQL
  • IMAP
• Transfer backups to:
  • Other directories (e.g. via samba to another machine)
  • SCP
• Encrypt backups using:
  • AESpipe

A sample, commented configuration file is included. To run perlbak:

$ ./perlbak.pl [--quiet --silent | -v[...]] [--file-mode=full|inc] <–all | backup …>

Perlbak is designed to be run from cron.

Update:

Perlbak uses several perl modules, some of which do not come preinstalled, at least not on my system. To install them, run cpan, and install them with the following commands;

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install <package>

The list of packages used by Perlbak is:

• BIND::Config::Parser
• Getopt::Long
• Pod::Usage
• Switch
• Sys::Pushd
• File::Copy::Recursive
• File::Recurse (At time of writing not available for install this way, get it manually from http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Recurse/)
• FindBin

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