BackupNetClone

Requirements

BackupNetClone requires the following items:

• Backup Client(s): These are the computers that have data which needs to be backed up.
  • rsync and SSH daemons
    • Windows: cwRsync Server (http://www.itefix.no/cwrsync/) or DeltaCopy (http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp)
    • UNIX/Linux: rsyncd and sshd
    • MAC OS X: built-in or rsyncx (http://archive.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html)
  • Internet connection (or local network connection to the backup server)
• Backup Server: This is where BackupNetClone resides, and is where the backup data will be stored.
  • Linux with some standard command-line tools (most of these are available in busybox and in all Linux/UNIX distributions):
    • shell (bash)
    • rsync (version 2.6.9 or above recommended)
    • ping (only used if you want to verify SMTP server connectivity before sending email)
    • telnet (if you want BNC to send email status)
    • uuencode (if you want BNC to send email status)
    • ssh client
    • date
    • echo
    • sed
    • expr
    • chmod
    • mv
    • cp
    • cat
    • head
    • tail
    • rm
    • ps
    • grep
    • awk
    • tr
    • xargs
    • dirname
    • kill
    • sleep
    • ls (with -d capability)
    • cut
    • printf
  • all of the above Linux requirements are available on D-Link's DNS-323 with the following:
    • D-Link firmware 1.03 or 1.04
    • inreto (Fonz's) fun_plug 0.3 (http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/); also see the DNS-323 "hacking" wiki (http://wiki.dns323.info/) and forum (http://forum.dsmg600.info/)
  • Internet connection (or local network connection to the backup clients)

Benjamin L. Brown, released to the Public Domain.