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Seems nice, I think I will definitely evaluate it for home usage.

Do you think it works in a corporate setting to back up macs?

When you add a short description (50-100 characters) and maybe additionally create a pull request, I'd be glad to add it to the list.

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Any setting that is good with rsnapshot should work out with snebu. If you need plugins for specific applications (such as databases, etc), the client script does have a nice plugin feature (to execute pre/post scripts) I've already got one for Oracle, but need to document the plugin architecture. Also, for backing up Macs, you will need to adjust the parameters in the tar command in the client script (take out the --selinux, --acls, and --xattrs flags if your Mac tar doesn't support them, and possibly replace them with other extended flags that it does support). Also, you need the GNU version of find (it is the only one I found that supports all of the --printf options to display things like inode, ctime, mtime, size, etc).

For scalability, I've used it for the past couple years to back up about 40 Linux hosts, keeping 14 daily, 6 weekly, and 12 monthly backups (approx 1200 backupsets total). Most of the recent work has been in improving response times of the various sqlite calls. A future project will be adding the option to use a full-featured DB behind it, such as mysql, postgresql, or even oracle.

Anyway, if you run into any issues, drop me a line on the project site, or email me directly. Thanks.

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can you push out a PKGBUILD and/or Arch Linux package? That'd be very nice for testing purposes, I think the people in the Arch forums would love a thread about this.

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I've already did one a while ago, at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/snebu however thanks for reminding me, I need to update it with the latest version. I also have an srpm, which builds on Fedora and RHEL 6/7. If I get a couple more people to try it out and report success, I'll submit the package to Fedora, and then work on Debian.

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If you updated your PKGBUILD, please comment again :)

Thanks for your effort!

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I've rebuilt the package, and uploaded the current version to AUR. Haven't ran through its paces on Arch yet -- I guess its time for me to automate the validation testing, and have it auto-test against multiple distributions.

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