kind

kind

kind - kind is not dirvish

kind is a tool to organize backups on harddisks. It is inspired and follows the same principles as dirvish.

A backup server running kind creates images (snapshots) of directory trees on different hosts (clients) on a regular basis. Each image is a complete copy, but unchanged files are shared between different images as hardlink.

Basic tool for this is rsync, which must be installed on the server and the clients. rsync may be used via ssh or as server.

For an automated backup via ssh the server must have ssh access to the clients without password (using public key authentication).

If the client runs rsync as server it must be configured to allow the server to read the modules to backup.

Windows clients can be backed up using DeltaCopy as rsync server on Windows.

##Installation

Make sure, that rsync, ssh and find are installed correctly on server and clients.

Make sure, that the backup user can login from server to the client host[s] without password (using public key authentication)

clone the repository and build kind using

- make dep
- make

in the directory src. Copy kind to a directory on server (e.g. /usr/sbin)

or

copy the statically linked binary (for x86-64) from directory bin to the server.

To use man as help for kind:

copy man/kind.8 to /usr/share/man/man8
copy man/kind.conf.5 to /usr/share/man/man5

##Usage

• Create a directory used as "bank" on a filesystem with enough space

• Create a master config file /etc/kind/master.conf, containing at least the bank:

  bank=/disk1/kind
  

• Create one or more subdirectories of the bank as "vault" for the backups

• Create a subdirectory kind in each vault directory

• Create a vault config file /[bank]/[vault]/kind/vault.conf, containing

  host=[client host]
  
  user=[backup user on client]
  path=[path to backup on client]
  
  

• Run kind (on server) first time:

  kind -f [vault]
  

• Run kind regularly (with cron):

  kind [vault]
  

Use man kind and man kind.conf for more help