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Ignis is a special backup program for the SOHO sector. It implements a full-backup strategy, a mix between the backup schemes of GFS and Tower of Hanoi. It is meant for backing up onto DVDs or simular media. Normally, it is called via cron to perform the backups and checks. Reports are sent via mail. The ignis project is licensed under the GPL (v2 or later).

If you have following scenario ignis is the backup solution for you:

• all the important data fits onto one medium, e.g: DVD-RAM (only full backups onto one medium per run is supported)
• the backup should run unattended e.g. once a week on a fixed day
• the backup is done on a Linux system (other Unixes have not been tested so far) which is running at least always at the time the automatic backup is done
• the backup operator which changes the mediums is not able or too lazy to do more than that (changing the mediums).

Features

• unattended backup onto a removable mainstream medium like DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD+RW or CD-RW
• easy recovery as the data can be read by any computer which can make use of the medium and can read from ISO file systems (directcopy backup method) or by the use of standard tools like tar, gzip, bzip2 and gnupg – depending on the method used to backup.
• summary email after backup reporting which medium was used and which is the next
• check function which reports via email some time before the backup is scheduled if everything is ready (1 or 2 days)
• separated email addresses can be specified for info and error mails. (operator vs administrator)
• md5 sums are generated and the written data is verified after writing
• multiple backup locations and methods are supported e.g. directcopy, tar (+ gzip/bzip2) (+gnupg)
• a recovery program to restore, search, list and show the history of previously backuped files.

• The install is quite simple:

• extract the archive (release tarball):
  
  
  $ tar -jxvf ignis-.tar.bz2

  checkout the code from svn:
  
  

  $ svn export https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ignis/trunk
• install the program:
  
  $ sudo make install
• now configure
  
  $ sudo vim /etc/ignis.ini