rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The
target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse
diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you
can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best
features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves
subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership (if it
is running as root), and modification times. Finally, rdiff-backup can operate
in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use
rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location,
and only the differences will be transmitted.
realsync daemon with rsync and python:
- config support /usr/local/etc/realsync.cfg
- e-mail stats support
- threads support
- threads wait support
Rinse is a simple tool which is designed to carry out the installation
of a new RPM-based distribution.
Using rinse you can easily setup simple chroot() systems running
different RPM-based distributions, such as Centos, Scientific Linux or
openSUSE.
The purpose and usage are analogous to the 'debootstrap' utility
familiar to users of Debian GNU/Linux. It was primarily designed to
work with the xen-tools software, which creates new guest images for
running inder the Xen hypervisor.
Dir::Purge implements functions to reduce the number of files in a directory
according to a strategy. It currently provides one strategy: removal of files by
age.
Ruby-quota is a ruby library to manipulate filesystem quotas.
SCSI / firewire harddrive spindown daemon
This is a small program for handling automated spinning down of
SCSI harddrives. With SCSI devices it is not as common to spindown
for power management purposes as for ATA however it might be required
to spin down a disk contained in a firewire enclosure for instance.
stress is a tool which imposes a configurable amount of CPU,
memory, I/O, or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating
system. It is written in portable ANSI C, and uses the GNU
Autotools to compile on a great number of UNIX-like operating
systems.
stress is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system
administrators to evaluate how well their systems will scale,
by kernel programmers to evaluate perceived performance
characteristics, and by systems programmers to expose the
classes of bugs which only or more frequently manifest
themselves when the system is under heavy load.
Hiera is a pluggable (YAML, JSON, Puppet) hierarchical database for
storing infrastructure representation data.
Hiera is a pluggable (YAML, JSON, Puppet) hierarchical database for
storing infrastructure representation data.
Terminal mixer can start processes inside a pseudo-terminal, which can
be accessed through a Unix socket, TCP or even raw ethernet (not yet
ported to FreeBSD). The programs can be linked to the current
terminal, or they can be unlinked like in nohup. But even in this
latter case you can connect to them using the mentioned protocols.
tm can also start programs as if they communicate through pipes
instead of terminals, and this can be quite useful for
remote-controlling applications.
More than one client can connect to the served pseudo-terminal, either
using tm as a client or telnet for TCP. You can choose if they are
only allowed to read, or they can also contribute on input.