hdup

The little, spiffy, backup tool
 If its not backed up, its gone!

Unmaintained! I'm using rdup nowadays. But hdup is a mature/stable program, so be free to use it

hdup in rdup

I've tried to write up why I think rdup is a better tool; I can rewrite hdup in rdup, see: this blog post

what is it?

Hdup2 is a backup utilty, it's aim is to make backup really simple. The backup scheduling is done by means of a cronjob. Is supports a include/exclude mechanism, remote backups, encrypted backups and split backups (called chunks) to allow easy burning to CD/DVD.

features

  • simple to use,
  • small and versatile backup program,
  • support for incremental backups,
  • support for backups over the network (with ssh),
  • support for network restore (with ssh),
  • support for encrypted backups (using mcrypt, gnupg),
  • support for split up archives (called chunks),
  • support for .nobackup files (to exclude certain directories),
  • flexible regular expression based include/exclude mechanism,
  • designed to be run from cron.
  • You need a Gnu tar version > 1.3.25

Hdup should run and compile on all Unixes out there. It does depend on Gnu tar for the backups. It also needs glib-dev if you compile it yourself. Also for building it you need Gnu Make.

You'll also need a recent tar version. Anything after 1.3.25 should work. Newer is better.

Backups

The scheme implemented by hdup2 is sometimes called the Grandfather-Father-Son scheme, Hdup just calls it: monthly-weekly-daily. Using this scheme it is wise to keep your backups for a minimum of one month.

release 2.0.14

Version: 2.0.14 (released 10 December 2005)

This is a bug fix release.

changelog

- bugfix release -
  * bug #3: when adding a file to the filelist also use NULL
    as a delimeter, not a newline. (Thanks to Chad Sawatzky for reporting)
   * Overhauled the tarball making. It's now distributed as
     hdup2-.tar.bz2 and unpacks in hdup-/ directory.

download

Sources of hdup:

roadmap

  • Released: 16 Nov '04: first 2.0 release: 2.0.1.
  • Released: 22 Dec '04: working 2.0: 2.0.3
  • Released: 06 Jan '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.4 (...)
  • Released: 19 Jan '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.5 (...)
  • Released: 02 Feb '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.6 (...)
  • Released: 18 Mar '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.7 (...)
  • Released: 22 Jun '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.8 (minor bugfixes)
  • Released: 04 Jul '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.9 (major bugfixes)
  • Released: 06 Aug '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.10 (minor bugfixes)
  • Released: 30 Sep '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.11 (bugfixes/features)
  • Released: 02 Oct '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.12 (minor bugfixes)
  • Released: 26 Nov '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.13 (updates in the restores code)
  • Released: 10 Dec '05: 2.0 update: 2.0.14 (minor bugfix)
  • To be released: future bug fix updates for 2.0.x (these releases are scheduled to take place once a month (if needed))
  • Split up hdup in hdup-dump and hdup-restore?
  • i18n for hdup's output?