Tools & Utilities
BssBackup
This simple and compact backup application may be suitable for a home users and small business as well. It allows you to setup a backup process, which can store selected content in TAR archives via FTP on a remote server. You can also specify additional actions to be included in process and/or different backup plans for particular directories. And even more: this software is BSD licenced so you can adapt it to your needs any time.
Setup
- Unzip binary package into your program directory. For further explanation let say it is
C:\Program Files\BssBackup - Adjust configuration file Config.xml according to your requirements. See more info below.
- You can start backup manually via command:
"C:\Program Files\BssBackup\BssBackup.exe" [<configuration file> [<backup level>]] - You may also start backup regularly via Windows Task Scheduler
Configuration
There two main parts, that you have to configure for your backup: Location for backup archives and set of files you want to backup. BssBackup allows you to configure few locations (so called catalogs) so you can keep a daily backups on fast media like the same PC with activated compression on folder and make daily backups on a network server probably with advanced compression, that is more slowly. So let define two catalogs for this purpose.
Catalogs (Backup location)
<!-- Catalog defines location of backup files -->
<catalog name="CatalogFastAccess">
<location path="Z:\BACKUP"/>
<!-- Hier you have to specify how many archives of particular backup levels should be keept:
As suggestion:
Level 0 - Full backup / anual
Level 1 - Monthly
Level 2 - Weekly
Level 3 - Daily
-->
<retention level="3" quantity="14"/>
</catalog>
<!-- You can specify few catalogs -->
<catalog name="CatalogNetworkStorage">
<!-- optional action to be executed before accessing catalog (i.g. mount share) and after completed backup
<startup exec="mnt" dir="c:\" args=""/>
<shutdown exec="mnt" dir="c:\" args="-u"/>
-->
<location path="ftp://usr:password@192.168.1.2/backup/"/>
<!-- Additional TAR files may be compressed with gzip or bzip2 -->
<compression method="bzip2" level="2" />
<!-- Hier you have to specify how many archives of particular backup levels should be keept:
As suggestion:
Level 0 - Full backup / anual
Level 1 - Monthly
Level 2 - Weekly
Level 3 - Daily
-->
<retention level="0" quantity="2"/>
<retention level="1" quantity="12"/>
<retention level="2" quantity="4"/>
</catalog>
Backup set
This part of configuration defines which files should be taken into backup.
<!-- specification of files for backup -->
<backup_set name="CatalogFastAccess" level="3" type="incremental">
<!-- optional action to be executed before starting backup and after completed backup
<startup exec="stopService" dir="c:\" args="MailDaemon"/>
<shutdown exec="startService" dir="c:\" args="MailDaemon"/>
-->
<base path="C:\workshop" name="Workshop"/>
<exclude path="*\.svn"/>
<exclude path="*\obj"/>
<exclude file="*.obj"/>
<include file="*.cs"/>
<exclude pattern="regexp"/>
<include pattern="regexp"/>
</backup_set>
<backup_set name="CatalogNetworkStorage" level="1,2" type="differential">
<base path="C:\workshop" name="Workshop"/>
<exclude path="*\.svn"/>
<exclude path="*\obj"/>
<exclude file="*.obj"/>
<include file="*.cs"/>
<exclude pattern="regexp"/>
<include pattern="regexp"/>
</backup_set>
<backup_set name="CatalogNetworkStorage" level="0" type="full">
<base path="C:\workshop" name="Workshop"/>
<exclude path="*\.svn"/>
<exclude path="*\obj"/>
<exclude file="*.obj"/>
<include file="*.cs"/>
<exclude pattern="regexp"/>
<include pattern="regexp"/>
</backup_set>