Important

Use this program at your own risk. It works fine for me, but this is no guarantee it will work for you — as with any backup software you need to test it rigorously before putting it into production.

Current Yakup version tested on Debian based Kubuntu Linux 5.0.4 using the distributed versions of all required commands. My workstation is a Dell Precision 340 with 1.8GHz P4.

Yakup is still quite young and has not been extensively tested:

  • There may be Linux distribution portability issues, I've only tested it on Kubuntu 5.0.4.

  • When recording CD's yakup pipes mkisofs(8) through cdrecord(1), slower machines may not be able to keep up. If you are recording to CDROMs then putting the following line in your yakup.conf file will alleviate buffer overruns: 

    CDRECORD_OPTS=driveropts=burnfree

  • The cdrecord(1) shipped with Kubuntu (and other distributions) accepts device file names and although I designed yakup to accept the native cdrecord(1) SCSI device names this has not been tested.

  • yakup(1) has been coded to tolerate spaces in archive directory and file names but this has not been extensively tested.

Obtaining Yakup

The latest Yakup version and online documentation can be found at http://www.methods.co.nz/yakup/ and at the SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/yakup/.

Requisites

Yakup is a single bash(1) script which uses a number of standard of GNU commands, if you want to burn CD's or DVD's you'll also need cdrecord(1) and growisofs(1) respectively. See the REQUISITES section of the yakup(1) man page.

bash versions

  • Yakup has been tested with bash 3.00.16

  • The older bash 3.00.0 has problems (symptoms: getopt prerequisite failure).

COPYING

Copyright © 2005-2006 Stuart Rackham. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).