Welcome to Vitalus’ documentation!¶

Vitalus is a rsync wrapper. Rsync is a good atomic tool, but it needs to be wrapped to have a real backup solution. Backup solutions are generally too basic or very difficult. This one fits my needs.

Contents:

Philosophy¶

• I want to centralize my backup in a unique script to achieve many tasks.
• I want to backup my desktop on external disks.
• I want to backup external disks to other external disks.
• I want to backup my /home/user on hosts accessible via ssh to a local disk.
• I want to backup my destop to hosts accessible via ssh.
• I want to keep increment if I need it.
• I want to adjust the frequency of copies for each task. The script starts much more frequently.
• I want readable log files telling me if everything goes fine.
• ...

Functionalities¶

This is just another way to express the philosophy :) * Manage different tasks * rsync from and to local disks * rsync from SSH to local disk * rsync from local to SSH almost supported * Check disk space (local disks) * Keep track of time evolution (increments done with hard links), not possible via SSH for the moment. * Old increments deleted (keeping a minimal amount of increments) * Rotated logs (general + one per task)

How to install?¶

See How to install?.

How to setup?¶

See Example.

In my use case, I have a cron job running every hour. IMHO, this is quite atomic. Then, the script decides which task has to be done.

Indices and tables¶

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page