Hey all, I'm looking for help testing a project I've been working on
over the last few months. Snap [1] is a cross-platform system snapshot
and restoration utility which uses the underlying package management
system to take snapshots of packages installed as well as files modified
outside of the package management system.
Only files modified post-installation and new-files (eg those not
tracked by the package system) are backed up so that snapshots are
lightweight and are able to be migrated across hosts. Currently
supported are RPM based distros (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS <./CentOS.html>),
Deb based distros (Debian, Ubutunu), and Windows
Also supported are service snapshots. For example postgres and mysql
db's will be backed up, as are Apache and IIS websites using the native
tooling. All of this is built ontop of a very modular / plugable system
which allows developers to extend Snap to take and restore snapshots of
any custom target.
My intention of this project was to make cross-virtualization-hypervisor
and cross-cloud-provider [2] snapshots a cinch, but it can also be used
for general system backup and recovery.
I've tried to harden it up as much as I could up to this point,
writing an extensive test suite, and conducting full integration testing
on various platforms but am looking for more widespread testing,
especially in alternative environments. Also I would like to start
forming a community around this project, to write backends to support
snapshots on a variety of platforms and of a variety of services.
The project is as open source as it gets, written in Python and licensed
under the GPLv3. I've submitted Snap to Fedora [3] and Debian / Ubuntu
[4], any package reviews would be more than appreciated.
Thanks for reading so far!
-Mo Morsi
[1] https://github.com/movitto/snap
[2] http://mo.morsi.org/blog/node/347
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755890
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649585
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