Edition 1
Abstract
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fwbackups
and then press the Return key.
Note
fwbackups --help
to see all the available options and their descriptions.
Note
When to use set or one-time backups
Drag 'n' Drop!
Remember to test settings for remote destinations
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* * * * * command
Reducing backup size with compression
Increasing backup speed
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") are included in the backup.
Hidden files on the Windows platform are always backed up
Tokens
/home/username/Exclude
folder, all files with the png
extension, the file /home/username/foobar.jpg
and lastly any file named specificname.txt
are all excluded from the backup.
Example 2.5. Excluding files
/home/username/Exclude/*
*.png
/home/username/foobar.jpg
specificname.txt
Folder structure
/home/myusername
to /tmp
will result in your files being restored to /tmp/home/myusername
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/
on Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-based platforms) or the root drive (typically C:\
on the Windows platform) will restore your files to their original locations.
This feature is a work in progress
.conf
files), select → and then select the .conf file(s) to be imported. All versions of fwbackups configuration files can be imported.
Note
~/.fwbackups/Sets
on Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-based platforms and %APPDATA%\fwbackups\Sets
on the Windows platform.
Note
tar
executable is called upon directly to create a standard GNU tar archive, optionally with gzip or bzip2 compression. On Windows, Python's tarfile module is used to create a standard GNU compliant tar archive. In either case, backup compression is applied on-the-fly without the need for the tar archive to be created first.
tar xfz <backup file>
will extract all files from the backup.
rsync
to copy the files (rsync is faster than shutil and therefore is used when the OS supports it). Thus, in either case the result is a direct copy of the files and folder structure.
~/.fwbackups
folder on Linux, or %APPDATA%\fwbackups
on Windows. The GUI adminsitrator's application preferences are written to a file named fwbackups-prefs.conf
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fwbackups-userlog.txt
in the application data folder; it is not rotated automatically. Whenever the backup administrator is run or a backup/restore operation is started, the fwbackups log file will be appended to.
Sets
subfolder of the application data, and must have a .conf
extension in order to be read by fwbackups. The files are portable between different machines and platforms, and will be automatically upgraded on first read if they are from a prior fwbackups version.
fwbackups-run SetName
will execute an immediate backup using the settings configured for the named backup set. fwbackups-runonce SrcPath DstPath
will run a one-time backup of the specified paths to the specified destination. Execute either command with the --help
parameter for full options and usage details.
s.adam@diffingo.com
), To find more information about fwbackups, please visit the fwbackups homepage.
s.adam@diffingo.com
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