Bug#686669: ITP: duprepare -- Prepare system backup volume sources to be processed by duplicity

2012-09-05 Thread Hossam Hammady
Good step forward. However, I believe verifying backups is not enough. You need to create a virtual machine and restore your backup there to make sure everything is actually in place. Without an automated script (like duprepare-restore) it is really a big pain putting everything back. Please sta

Bug#686669: ITP: duprepare -- Prepare system backup volume sources to be processed by duplicity

2012-09-05 Thread Hossam Hammady
I didn't know about backupninja before. Basically it is the same idea, however, duprepare does both backup and restore. With backupninja backups are stored on backup volumes, with no easy way to restore them. With duprepare there are 3 scripts: duprepare-backup, duprepare-restore and duprepare-c

Bug#686669: ITP: duprepare -- Prepare system backup volume sources to be processed by duplicity

2012-09-04 Thread Hossam Hammady
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hossam Hammady * Package name: duprepare Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Hossam Hammady * License : (GPL) Programming Lang: (Bash) Description : Prepare backup volume sources to be processed by duplicity duprepare prepares