Introduction

CD Backup Linux v0.1
Copyrigth (C)1998 - 1999  Stefan Forstmoser

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This backup solution contains the work of a lot of other peoble. See Credits  for some of them. My parts stands under the GNU Public License (see the file COPYING). For all the other people's work, check their licenses.

I've made this backup application for my special own purposes. Maybe it's also usefull for you. I don't take any responsibilities for what you are doing with it, especially I will not be responsibile if you fail to restore a backup, which you had created with it. At the moment it's an early beta version, which is not well tested. NO WARRANTY!


... as usual, there was a linux-freak, who wanted some special application, which was not around, so he ended in writing his own one...

I had the following requirements to a backup tool:

The application is based on some common Linux tools (tar, dd, gzip, mkisofs, cdrecord), which I just had put together to fit my purposes. I've added two perl scripts, one for backing up and one for restoring. To make the backup configuration a little bit more comfortable and maybe usefull for you (and to have some nice screenshots ;-) I wrote a configuration gui in Java with some shell-scripts around it.
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