Document last updated 2005-04-04
As of 2005-02-14:
paxbac is currently a beta version. This means I have performed multiple backups on my home system with success.
paxbac is a python script that backs up your home system on to removable media such as CDs, storing the data in pax archives. It works on linux and Mac OS X systems, but remains untested on other unix systems.
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Backing up is easy. paxbac gathers the files you need backed up, excludes those files you want excluded, breaks them up into the right sizes, bundles them into pax archives, creates extensive logs of what is backed up on what removable media, and creates a CD image of all this data.
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paxbac allows easy incremental backups, adding files to existing disks.
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Your archives are stores in sequentially ordered archives, making restoration straight forward.
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paxbac uses the universal pax format, found on unix systems.
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paxbac preserves resource forks for Mac OS X files.
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paxbac gives you the option of letting it burn directly to a CD, pausing between the creation of archives to let you do the copying on to any member, or running a script to do the copying.
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paxbac comes with no guarantees, so use at your own risk!
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paxbac does not compress data.
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paxbac will not make images for DVDs. If you want to use a DVD as your backup system, you will have to copy the data from a directory to your DVD, either manually or by a script. (See the use page.)
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