LBackup Developers Home Page

The LBackup development process is completely open. Whether you are a developer or just interested in what is going on, you are welcome, contribute or have a look around or download the source code.

• Sort Term Road Map ( This page provides a rough guide regarding soon to be added features )
• Dealing with SIP (MacOS - Full Disk Access)
• Filevault Integration
• Freenet Integration
• Deployment of Track
• Email Reporting
• Restore Interfaces
• Case insensitivity on some Mac OS X file systems
• Official SSH Agent Instructions
• Additional Useful SSH Options
• Advanced use of the excludes file
• Compiling rsync with HFS support ( includes rsync version 3 information )
  • HFS compression (10.6) rsync archives thread.
• Automated Backup Volume Checking ( includes ACL's and permission's )
• Speed
• OS X automount notes
• LBackup rsyncrypto support
• Improvements to the Documentation and Installation
• VMWare Fusion VM Backup
• Disk Image Backup (includes encrypted disk image backup)
• Data Verification
• Migrating Backup Sets
• Version Management
• Automated SSH Backup Script
• Backup as root without root login
• Alpha and Beta Downloads (Signup to the LBackup announcements mailing list)
• Debian Build Notes
• Bandwidth Limiting
• Snap Shots
  • LVM Snap Shoots (notes not yet online)
  • ZFS Snap Shoots (notes not yet online)
• Ignore Vanished File Warnings
• Database Backups
• Pre and Post Action Tools
  • Mounting Attached Backup Devices
• Data Deduplication
• Vulnerabilities
• Performance
• Compression
  • FuseCompress
• Raspberry Pi (links and general information relating to the use of LBackup on the Raspberry Pi)
• Detecting Bad Blocks on Storage Media (Information relating to detecting bad blocks on a storage device)
• Failing HDD Data Recovery (Information relating to recovering data from a hard drive with bad blocks)
• Removing Core Storage Volumes and Volume Groups

• LBackup Development Goals
• LBackup Mailing Lists (various LBackup related mailing lists)
  • excludes file example (covers including some directories and not others)
• Interesting Backup Projects (and some related projects)
• Keychain, SSHKeycahin and LaunchD
• Backups, what are they?
• OS X Daemons and Agents
• Article Regarding Various rsync projects and Technologies
• Windows Copy Page
• SSH RSync Unblocking Code
• Interesting Rsync Wrapper Project
• Rsync Manual
• Rsync LINUX & MacOS X
• Goodbye to Tape
• Rsync Reporting (Request)
• HFS rsync page
• Another HFS rsync page
• HFS enabled RSync Binary
• Rdiff-Backup Script
• Murk (rsync friendly encryption)
• EncFS (FUSE Encryption)
• Perl script to find the modification time of a file (as long as Perl is installed should be cross platform)
• Perl Script Compare Backup --link-dest based Backups (Perl)
• Novel Links
  • Backup White Paper
  • Windows and rsync
• Perl script to limit rsync via SSH key(s)
• Delta rsync transfer of large files
• encrypted loopback file systems linux
• unraid (usb operating system which allows you to setup an expandable file server)
• network link monitoring
• Simple script for creating an compressed archive of a directory (also offers information regarding bash scripting basics)
• Mac OS X Adaptive Firewall
• rdiff-backup tutorial and more (includes tutorials on general LINUX setup)
• rsync manual
• rrsync
  • Restricts rsync to subdirectory declared in .ssh/authorized_keys
  • Keywords : ssh, keys, restriction,
  • rrsync --delete
  • rrsync at github
  • ruby rsync at github
• CCC rsync related links (OS X)
  • rsync full system backup (older version)
  • what makes a volume bootable
• Keeping a disk image mounted on Mac OS X
• Bup related links (OS X specific tool which includes support for UUID's)
  • Introduction to bup
  • Ideas about the future of bup (in particular the use of bup as a file system).
  • Various information relating to bup (.pdf)