This example shows HashBackup creating and maintaining a deduped & encrypted remote file system mounted locally as a regular filesystem via FUSE.  This example is with rsync.net, though the same basic steps apply to any HashBackup destination.

1. Copy ssh public key to rsync.net server:

[jim@mb]$ scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub XXXX@usw-s002.rsync.net:.ssh/authorized_keys

Password:

id_rsa.pub

      100%  392     0.4KB/s   00:00    

2. Create a local HashBackup backup directory:

[jim@mb]$ hb init -c hb

HashBackup build 1070 Copyright 2009-2013 HashBackup, LLC

Backup directory: /Users/jim/hb

Permissions set for owner access only

Created key file /Users/jim/hb/key.conf

Key file set to read-only

Setting include/exclude defaults: /Users/jim/hb/inex.conf

VERY IMPORTANT: your backup is encrypted and can only be accessed with

the encryption key, stored in the file:

    /Users/jim/hb/key.conf

You MUST make copies of this file and store them in a secure location,

separate from your computer and backup data.  If your hard drive fails, 

you will need this key to restore your files.  If you setup any

remote destinations in dest.conf, that file should be copied too.

Backup directory initialized

3. Create a dest.conf file in the backup directory:

[jim@mb]$ cat - >hb/dest.conf

destname rsyncnet

type rsync

dir NNNN@usw-s002.rsync.net:

password XYZZY

4. Enable dedup using up to 1GB of memory:

[jim@mb]$ hb config -c hb dedup-mem 1g

HashBackup build 1070 Copyright 2009-2013 HashBackup, LLC

Backup directory: /Users/jim/hb

Current config version: 0

Showing current config

Set dedup-mem to 1g (was 0)

5. Create a test file, 10 x 10k random blocks

[jim@mb]$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=ran10k bs=10k count=1

1+0 records in

1+0 records out

10240 bytes transferred in 0.001602 secs (6392272 bytes/sec)

[jim@mb]$ cat ran10k ran10k ran10k ran10k ran10k ran10k ran10k ran10k ran10k ran10k >test100k

[jim@mb]$ ls -l test100k

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff  102400 Oct 15 14:20 test100k

6. Backup the test file:

[jim@mb]$ hb backup -c hb test100k

HashBackup build 1070 Copyright 2009-2013 HashBackup, LLC

Backup directory: /Users/jim/hb

Using destinations in dest.conf

This is backup version: 0

Dedup enabled, 0% of current, 0% of max

/Users/jim/test100k

Writing archive 0.0

Copied arc.0.0 to rsyncnet (11 KB 2s 5.0 KB/s)

Copied hb.db.0 to rsyncnet (4.3 KB 2s 2.1 KB/s)

Copied dest.db to rsyncnet (340 B 2s 162 B/s)

Time: 4.8s

Wait: 6.5s

Checked: 5 paths, 125418 bytes, 125 KB

Saved: 5 paths, 125418 bytes, 125 KB

Excluded: 0

Dupbytes: 0

Compression: 87%, 8.1:1

Space: 15 KB, 15 KB total

No errors

7. Create a different test file, with junk at the beginning, middle, and end:

[jim@mb]$ echo abc>junk

[jim@mb]$ cat junk test100k junk test100k junk >test200k

[jim@mb]$ ls -l test200k

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff  204812 Oct 15 14:24 test200k

8. Backup the new file:

[jim@mb]$ hb backup -c hb test200k

HashBackup build 1070 Copyright 2009-2013 HashBackup, LLC

Backup directory: /Users/jim/hb

Using destinations in dest.conf

This is backup version: 1

Dedup enabled, 0% of current, 0% of max

/Users/jim/test200k

Writing archive 1.0

Copied arc.1.0 to rsyncnet (42 KB 2s 15 KB/s)

Copied hb.db.1 to rsyncnet (4.6 KB 1s 2.3 KB/s)

Copied dest.db to rsyncnet (388 B 1s 207 B/s)

Time: 3.0s

Wait: 6.7s

Checked: 5 paths, 227898 bytes, 227 KB

Saved: 5 paths, 227898 bytes, 227 KB

Excluded: 0

Dupbytes: 122880, 122 KB, 53%

Compression: 79%, 4.8:1

Space: 47 KB, 62 KB total

No errors

9. What do the stats look like?

[jim@mb]$ hb stats -c hb

HashBackup build 1070 Copyright 2009-2013 HashBackup, LLC

Backup directory: /Users/jim/hb

  2 completed backups

      353 KB file bytes checked since initial backup

      353 KB file bytes saved since initial backup

  0s total backup time

      176 KB average file bytes checked per backup in last 2 backups

      176 KB average file bytes saved per backup in last 2 backups

100% average changed data percentage per backup in last 2 backups

  0s average backup time for last 2 backups

      353 KB file bytes currently stored

  2 archives

      53 KB archive space

      53 KB active archive bytes - 100%

5:1 industry standard dedup ratio

      26 KB average archive space per backup for last 2 backups

6:1 reduction ratio of backed up files for last 2 backups

      6.2 MB dedup table current size

  4 dedup table entries

  0% dedup table utilization at current size

  2 files

  6 paths

  12 blocks

  6 unique blocks

      16,386 average variable-block length (bytes)

10. How much space are we using on the rsync server?

[jim@mb]$ ssh XXXX@usw-s002.rsync.net ls -l

total 309

-rw-r--r--  1 XXXX  XXXX     33 Oct 15 18:22 DESTID

-rw-r--r--  1 XXXX  XXXX  11216 Oct 15 18:22 arc.0.0

-rw-r--r--  1 XXXX  XXXX  42416 Oct 15 18:25 arc.1.0

-rw-r--r--  1 XXXX  XXXX    388 Oct 15 18:25 dest.db

-rw-r--r--  1 XXXX  XXXX   4308 Oct 15 18:22 hb.db.0

-rw-r--r--  1 XXXX  XXXX   4604 Oct 15 18:25 hb.db.1

11. By default, HB creates a local backup too.  Delete the local arc files (this is the file backup data)

[jim@mb]$ hb config -c hb cache-size-limit 0

HashBackup build 1070 Copyright 2009-2013 HashBackup, LLC

Backup directory: /Users/jim/hb

Current config version: 2

Showing current config

Set cache-size-limit to 0 (was -1)

[jim@mb]$ hb backup -c hb /dev/null

HashBackup build 1070 Copyright 2009-2013 HashBackup, LLC

Backup directory: /Users/jim/hb

Using destinations in dest.conf

This is backup version: 2

Dedup enabled, 0% of current, 0% of max

/dev/null

Removing archive 2.0

Copied hb.db.2 to rsyncnet (4.0 KB 1s 2.0 KB/s)

Copied dest.db to rsyncnet (404 B 7s 57 B/s)

Time: 2.5s

Wait: 9.2s

Checked: 3 paths, 5692 bytes, 5.6 KB

Saved: 3 paths, 5692 bytes, 5.6 KB

Excluded: 0

Dupbytes: 0

Compression: 29%, 1.4:1

Space: 4.0 KB, 66 KB total

No errors

[jim@mb]$ ls -l hb

total 30600

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff       65 Oct 15 14:03 HBID

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff       76 Oct 15 14:05 dest.conf

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff     4096 Oct 15 14:31 dest.db

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff  6291716 Oct 15 14:31 hash.db

-rwxr-xr-x  1 jim  staff  9182624 Aug 10 09:45 hb

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff   139264 Oct 15 14:31 hb.db

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff     4308 Oct 15 14:22 hb.db.0

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff     4604 Oct 15 14:25 hb.db.1

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff     4012 Oct 15 14:31 hb.db.2

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff        6 Oct 15 14:31 hb.lock

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff      412 Oct 15 14:31 hb.sig

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff      511 Oct 15 14:03 inex.conf

-r--------  1 jim  staff      333 Oct 15 14:03 key.conf

12. Mount the backup as a FUSE filesystem in the background:

[jim@mb]$ hb mount -c hb mnt >mount.log 2>&1 &

[1] 62772

13. What's in the mounted filesystem?

[jim@mb]$ ls -l mnt

total 8

drwx------  1 jim  staff  1 Oct 15 14:22 2013-10-15-1422-r0

drwx------  1 jim  staff  1 Oct 15 14:25 2013-10-15-1425-r1

drwx------  1 jim  staff  1 Oct 15 14:31 2013-10-15-1431-r2

drwx------  1 jim  staff  1 Oct 15 14:31 latest

[jim@mb]$ find mnt/latest

mnt/latest

mnt/latest/Users

mnt/latest/Users/jim

mnt/latest/Users/jim

mnt/latest/Users/jim/test100k

mnt/latest/Users/jim/test200k

mnt/latest/dev

mnt/latest/dev/null

14. All file attributes are correct in the mounted filesystem:

[jim@mb]$ ls -l mnt/latest/Users/jim

total 602

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff  102400 Oct 15 14:20 test100k

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff  204812 Oct 15 14:24 test200k

[jim@mb]$ ls -l test*k

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff  102400 Oct 15 14:20 test100k

-rw-r--r--  1 jim  staff  204812 Oct 15 14:24 test200k

15. Test the backup: are the remote and local files equal?

[jim@mb]$ time cmp test100k mnt/latest/Users/jim/test100k

real 0m2.464s

user 0m0.001s

sys  0m0.005s

[jim@mb]$ time cmp test200k mnt/latest/Users/jim/test200k

real 0m2.271s

user 0m0.001s

sys  0m0.004s

[jim@mb]$ time cmp ran10k mnt/latest/Users/jim/test100k

cmp: EOF on ran10k

real 0m0.005s

user 0m0.001s

sys  0m0.003s

ran10k and remote test100k are equal for 1st 10k, which is correct.