Have you read Brackup::Manual::Overview? Your questions are all answered in the man pages there or linked from there.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:21:47PM +0530, Agnello George wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr gavin@openfusion.com.au wrote:
Brackup will backup to local disk, or remotely to ftp, sftp, Amazon S3, or Rackspace CloudFiles targets/servers. So yes, on a lan you can backup over ftp or sftp just fine.
Re docs, install brackup, 'man Brackup::Manual::Overview'. I've also written a few blog posts on it: http://www.openfusion.net/tags/brackup.
I am trying to install the brackup app on my system, the documentations seems very helpful ( http://www.openfusion.net/net/fun_with_brackup) But i have a few queries with the config file : [TARGET:backups] type = Filesystem path = /backup
[SOURCE:imapsource] path = /var/spool/imap chunk_size = 5m # what does this mean ???? gpg_recipient = 5E1B3EC5 # what does this mean ????
man Brackup::Manual::Overview; man Brackup::Root
[SOURCE:bradhome] chunk_size = 64MB path = /raid/bradfitz/ ignore = ^.thumbnails/ ignore = ^.kde/share/thumbnails/ ignore = ^.ee/minis/ ignore = ^build/ ignore = ^(gqview|nautilus)/thumbnails/
and suppose i want to backup it up to another server with scp / ssh how is this attatined .
man Brackup::Target::Sftp
secondly in whant format is the backup maintained .
Backups are trees of file chunks, and a metadata file to put the chunks back together as files. So you get de-duplication for free between files and across backups.
Cheers, Gavin