Copyright © 2014 Bart Massey
These scripts provide a usable setup of the Dirvish backup system for UNIX/Linux hosts. In particular, they correct a number of important or merely irritating defects in the scripting as it stands:
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Adding a new machine to Dirvish backup requires a number of detailed and error-prone steps.
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Adding a new partition to Dirvish backup requires a number of detailed and error-prone steps.
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Diagnosis of Dirvish problems is difficult due to lack of usable instrumentation.
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Encrypted backups and media changes have no native support in Dirvish.
Unfortunately, these scripts are currently not ready for general use. While they work fine in my reasonably complex home backup environment, I have not yet done the necessary generalization and automation to make them usable by others.
I expect to correct that problem shortly. In the meantime, I wanted to get the scripting up.
This work is available under the Open Software License v. 2.0. Please see the file COPYING in this distribution for license details.