HDB, a hard drive backup program

2010-08-11 Thread travis+ml-rsync
Hey all, I'm writing a tool:

http://www.subspacefield.org/security/hdb/

It is very similar in some ways to rsync, except it's meant for backing up
locally to removable HDDs, and it keeps metadata around when the HDD is
removed.

I figured I'd ping people here to see if they are interested in
participating in the brainstorming sessions.  I figure you know a lot
more than me about this kind of stuff.
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Re: HDB, a hard drive backup program

2010-08-11 Thread Henri Shustak
 Hey all, I'm writing a tool:
 
 http://www.subspacefield.org/security/hdb/



This is an interesting approach. I look forward to seeing the project develop.

Thanks for the link.


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Re: HDB, a hard drive backup program

2010-08-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org wrote:

 Hey all, I'm writing a tool:
 
 http://www.subspacefield.org/security/hdb/
 
 It is very similar in some ways to rsync, except it's meant for 
 backing up locally to removable HDDs, and it keeps metadata around 
 when the HDD is removed.
 
 I figured I'd ping people here to see if they are interested in 
 participating in the brainstorming sessions.  I figure you know a lot 
 more than me about this kind of stuff.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting keeps metadata around when the HDD is 
removed.  Isn't that part of most backup software?

If you haven't already, the Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) page 
on Wikipedia[1] has a list of software that (probably) does this.  In 
particular, at a former job of mine, we used Tivoli for backups.  It did 
what you're stating (kept metadata about backups around even without the 
backups).

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_storage_management#Implementations
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