Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
bung has been developed over eight years as a campus backup utility, running on Debian and a few Ubuntu systems. It is known to be used on more than 100 computers Documentation includes man pages and, available from https://redmine.auroville.org.in/projects/bung/wiki/Bung_technology user and programmer guides Selected text from that page follows bung is a set of wrapper scripts for several backup utilities: * OpenLDAP (slapcat and tar) * mysqldump * pgdump * rsync bung also has: * A "sysinfo" facility to generate system information reports * Templated backups allowing custom backup commands. Example templates are provided for Cisco switches and MikroTik routers bung features: * Automated backup to hotplug devices when they are plugged in with on-screen notifications to both character terminals and X displays * Backup to remote file systems via ssh * Custom commands (hooks) to run before and after the backup itself * File system hierarchy standard (FHS) compliant installation under /opt. For cron jobs, documentation, the logcheck filter file and man pages, symlinks are created in the conventional places with targets under /opt. Fori convenience, /etc/opt/bung and /var/log/bung are created for configuration and logs * GPLv2 * Logging designed to ease production support * LVM snapshots * man pages * Mounting and unmounting local file systems * Remote ssh command validation Best Charles Atkinson
