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 at 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