xpcom-bsd / zetaback

Zetaback is a thin-agent based ZFS backup tool. It is designed to help simplify the task of backing up thousands of filesystems on hundreds of machines across and organization. It simplifies the task of automatically picking up newly created ZFS filesystems for backup purposes and restoring any given backup (host/FS/timestamp) to a target ZFS capable host.

Zetaback ZFS backup and recovery management system

Zetaback is a thin-agent based ZFS backup tool. It is designed to:

• run from a central host
• scan clients for new ZFS filesystems
• manage varying desired backup intervals (per host) for
  • full backups
  • incremental backups
• maintain varying retention policies (per host)
• summarize existing backups
• restore any host:fs backup at any point in time to any target host

Prerequisites

• Backup host with a '''LOT''' of disk space.
• SSH in place where a user on the backup server can perform a password-less remote login to the clients (using ssh keys) and execute the agent script as root.
• Perl 5 on client and server.
• ZFS tools installed on client.

Download

• Download the code from git:

git clone git://labs.omniti.com/zetaback.git
cd zetaback
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Project Info

• License
• Maintainer: [email protected]
• Man pages are available after install

Developer Info

• How to Make A Release