A new version of the Obnam Manual that now includes both the help file, the extended help file, and the ‘man’ page. This is version 19.1, with the date of 17 January 2016.

Download - Obnam Manual, version 19.1

A new version of the Obnam Manual that now includes both the help file, the extended help file, and the ‘man’ page. This is version 1.9.2, with the date of 6 May 2015.

Download - removed as new version uploaded.

I had overwritten one very important file, it was the ’org2blog dashboard’ which held the database of all my org2blog postings so it was quite important. But, I’d overwritten it with another posting saved as ‘org2blog.org’! The creation date of that file was 28 December 2013, so I ...

This is not a post showing how to unlock an account in obnam, but a down and dirty unlock script that I use for those occasions when I get a locked backup and I cant be bothered to work out the configuration of ‘force-lock’.

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To use obnam-fuse, you may have to amend your obnam.conf, as shown here -

[config]

repository = /media/boudiccas/backup/obnam-home2

root = /home/boudiccas/

client-name = london

#exclude = .mp2$, .part$, .rar$, .nfo$, .m4v$,
#    .tmp$, ~\.cache$

keep = 8h,14d,10w,12m

log = /home/boudiccas/logs/obnam.txt
log-level = info
log-keep = 7
log-max = 50 ...

After much experimenting I’ve been able to mount an obnam generation back to 20th July 2013, my oldest backup that I have. To do this you need to have python-fuse and fuse-plugin.py installed. It is quite possible that you already have ‘fuse-plugin.py’ installed as part of your ...

Obnam restore

Having done a restore and re-install recently of my Debian wheezy box, I made notes on what exactly I did. This was a ‘planned’ restore in that I decided at about 1430 to start the restore now rather than wait for doing it tomorrow. Whilst Obnam was completing ...

Has my backup succeeded?

At the end of ‘obnamhome.txt’ there is a block of text which is very interesting to see how your backup has gone -

2013-09-04 16:31:48 INFO Backup performance statistics:
2013-09-04 16:31:48 INFO \* files found: 163789
2013-09-04 16:31:48 INFO \* files backed ...

obnam.conf

[config]
repository = /media/boudiccas/backup/obnam-home/
root = /home/boudiccas/
exclude = ~/.thumbnails$, .iso$
exclude-caches = false
keep = 8h,14d,10w,12m
log = /home/boudiccas/cron/obnam/obnamhome.txt
log-level = info
log-keep = 5
log-max = 50 mb
log-mode = 0600

notify-send

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Sooner or later you will need to restore from your backup, and it doesn’t hurt to create a situation where you do need to restore a file. I am going to show how I restore files which does work as I have had to use it for real.

Restore ...

I’ve recently been looking at my backup strategy, as I now believe that its very wasteful of resources to have 14 copies of something as I have at present. That’s 14 copies of an email, document, or anything really. So I’ve been looking about for something

• that ...