About:
Cedar Backup is a software package designed to manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines. Cedar Backup understands how to back up filesystem data as well as MySQL and PostgreSQL databases and Subversion repositories. It can also be easily extended to support other kinds of data sources. Cedar Backup is focused around weekly backups to a single CD or DVD disc. It supports multisession discs, allowing you to add incremental data to a disc on a daily basis. Cedar Backup also provides a Python library of backup-related functionality.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
The ability to dereference links when link following is enabled was added (link_depth > 0). This makes it a little easier to configure a backup using a "link farm".

Author:
Kenneth J. Pronovici [contact developer]

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8.42/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://cedar-backup.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cedar-backup/CedarBackup2-2.18.0.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://cedar-backup.sourceforge.net/docs/cedar-backup2/Changelog
Mailing list archive:
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=210468

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		Python
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules, System :: Archiving :: Backup, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.18.0	06-May-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.18.0	Minor feature enhancements	06-May-2008 09:14
2.17.0	Minor feature enhancements	20-Mar-2008 21:26
2.16.0	Minor feature enhancements	19-Mar-2008 07:36
2.15.3	Minor bugfixes	17-Mar-2008 02:39
2.15.2	Minor bugfixes	07-Feb-2008 18:13
2.15.1	Major feature enhancements	20-Dec-2007 06:40
2.14.0	Minor bugfixes	20-Sep-2007 07:27
2.13.2	Minor bugfixes	11-Jul-2007 07:02
2.13.1	Major bugfixes	30-Mar-2007 08:18
2.13.0	Major feature enhancements	26-Mar-2007 07:36

 Comments

[»] That is what I was looking for
by Łukasz Nowak - May 23rd 2007 03:56:59

In our company I was implementing some backup solutions based on shell scripts. But shell scripts do not have exception system, and sometimes backups were failed, without any notice.

I was investigating many backup solutions - Backup Manager, BackupNinja, Bacula, etc. Some of them are only set of shell scripts, which I try to avoid (like Backup Manager), some of them are only snapshotters (BackupNinja) and some are too complicated (Bacula).

Cedar Backup is middle-like solution - quite easy to configure, with many features out of the box, and easy to extend (via python scripts).

I recommend it to administrators, who are not able to maintain they own scripts, and for which huge projects like Bacula is too much.

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