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4Butterbackup is a backup system which stores snapshots in btrfs on a central server. A web gui allows for simple restore of files.
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6For now it is rather crude. To get started backing up some manual work is needed.
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8Create /etc/butterbackup
9# echo "--exclude /tmp --exclude /proc --exclude /sys --exclude /dev" > /etc/butterbackup/default.cfg
10# touch /etc/butterbackup/machine1.example.com
11# touch /etc/butterbackup/machine2.example.com
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12# ssh-copy-id root@machine1.example.com
13# ssh-copy-id root@machine1.example.com
14# mkdir /mnt/data2
15# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1
16# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/data2 #hardcoded for now
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