Backup Buddy 0.85

Backup Buddy is a set of scripts which make versioned, disk-to-disk, backups via rsync easy. Backup Buddy will allow you to set up disk-to-disk backups that happen automatically.
I hate tapes. Theyre messy, time-wasting, and nowadays, surprisingly expensive. Dont forget unreliable and inconvenient.
In my experience, if somebody has to be made to swap tapes routinely, then backups generally just arent done routinely.
Ive been using rsync for some time to mirror my primary webserver to a backup server on an independent network, to cover things in a worst-case scenario.
After trying a few other options, and not finding anything truly "good enough" for real backups, I wrote Backup Buddy.
Main features:
- Uses rsycs hard link option to provide incremental backups on spinning media. No special software should need to be installed on any recent *nix distro.
- Notifies administrator by email when errors have been detected.
- Fault tolerant - if it "goes offline" and backups arent performed for a while, it should "start working" gracefully and automatically.
- No special setup beyond defining a config file should be required to get a new account running.
- Fault aware - if something goes wrong, it should alert an admin. (by email)
- Good logging - a quick preview of the log file(s) should tell everything thats going on.
- Easy to configure - Somebody new to its use should be able to set it up in < 10 minutes once deps are met.
- Disk Space Handling: You can define a threshold of max image size space to keep free.
- Web page for quick and easy access to reports on backup statistics. (Coming soon)