SafeKeep

SafeKeep project is a centralized and easy to use backup software that combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.

You will probably find SafeKeep useful if you:

� Run Linux, and you need to backup your data,
� Prefer Open Source, and you are not willing to trust your valuable data to a closed, proprietary product,
� Demand Security, because it is not negotiable,
� Strive for Simplicity, because TCO matters.

If you feel SafeKeep may be the answer for your data backup needs, take a few moments to see what it can offer. We've tried to make it simple, secure, and manageable.

What is new in this release:

• This is primarily a bugfix update, but it also fixes report setup errors in summary reports, adds a flag to disable a backup configuration file, adds new targets for building Debian source packages, and adds a number of bugfixes for Python compatibility and other errors.

What is new in version 1.4.1:

• This version includes: a major rework of LVM snapshot handling, generation of MIME email with summary reports, better handling of PostgreSQL passwords, the ability to use LVM snapshots with XFS filesystems, allows the use of ~/.safekeep for non-root users, and allows default and automatic snapshot sizes.

What is new in version 1.4.0:

• This version adds the ability to store script files on either the client or server, rewritten snapshot creation to remove use of "rbind", automatic cleanup on next run after an abort, support for LVM tagging for snapshots, better handling of messages and tracebacks, and a number of other code cleanups and bugfixes.
• The minimum Python supported is now Python 2.3.

What is new in version 1.3.3:

• This version includes more fixes for dealing with LVM snapshots, better handling of other failure conditions, updates for Python syntax issues and changes, allowing of the specification of a sender address in email messages, and better handling of ionice(1).

What is new in version 1.3.2:

• This version fixes a few serious errors that prevented safekeep from running.
• LVN snapshots and SSH key delivery were fixed.
• A number of errors introduced in the previous release (1.3.1) were fixed.
• Installation from source ("make install") was improved.

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• Ability to nice(1) both servers and clients for nicer CPU behaviour.
• Ability to ionice(1) the server for nicer IO behaviour.
• Portability fixes to news versions of python.
• Much better reporting or messages, errors, etc from clients.
• Many cleanups, bug fixes, and smaller improvements.

What is new in version 1.2.1:

• Fix error while trying to nice the server

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• Implement bandwidth limiting, based on trickle
• Add support for niced backup server (defaults to nice +10)
• External callbacks throughout the backup process
• Several minor improvements and fixes in usability
• We now backup all special files by default
• Add pass-through options for the DB dump command
• Allow passing the pgpasswd to PostgreSQL
• Avoid errors for mounts containing spaces
• Correctly handle LVM names that contain dashes
• Fix dopey MySQL dump.

What is new in version 1.0.5:

• Allow providing the password for the DB user used for the DB dump
• Add config option for passing additional flags to rdiff-backup
• Avoid backing up special files by default
• Avoid creating multiple LVM snapshots (avoids some LVM bugs)
• Add new --cleanup option to help recovery from crashes
• Make it easier to package on platforms that don't have asciidoc

Requirements:

• rdiff-backup
• ssh
• Logical Volume Manager (recommended)
• MySQL (optional)
• PostgreSQL (optional)