Bug 556754

Summary:	sys-block/dattobd: kernel module for taking block-level snapshots and incremental backups of Linux block devices
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Laurent V <laurent>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	john
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Laurent V 2015-08-05 13:08:17 UTC

Hi,

The dattobd tool has been released under GPL v2 on Github : https://github.com/datto/dattobd and compile + work fine under Gentoo amd64.

Could we get an official ebuild for it ? It is a useful tool superseding dump/restore by allowing safe live snapshoting and imaging of an ext2/3/4 or XFS filesystem.

Here's the description of the software :

Dattobd is an open source Linux kernel module for point-in-time live snapshotting. Dattobd can be loaded onto a running Linux machine (without a reboot) and used to create an image file representing any block device at the instant the snapshot is taken.

Thanks ! 

Laurent

Comment 1 John Sennesael 2019-05-29 17:54:22 UTC

Nothing official, but I created an ebuild that should work: https://github.com/jnse/ebuilds/tree/master/sys-fs/dattobd