Burp

Burp is a network backup and restore program. It attempts to reduce network traffic and the amount of space that is used by each backup.

References

• Burp homepage.
• Burp on GitHub.

Build on Lacie-CloudBox

Build on Optware

Links:

• Burp on GNAP

Example of install log on QNAP

• Burp on GitHub.

Install:

• Clone git

# Clone git repository
git clone https://github.com/grke/burp.git
cd burp
git checkout 2.1.6

# Generate the autoconf files
autoreconf -vif
# ...
# Compilation failed in require at /opt/share/automake-1.12/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 23.
# ...
# autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 255

• We run autoreconf on ubuntu, and import files back on lacie:

autoreconf -vif
find -name .gitignore|xargs rm
git add -A
git checkout HEAD -- .gitignore m4/.gitignore src/win32/.gitignore test/.gitignore
git commit -m "add results of autoreconf -vif"
git branch -f master

• Install dependencies, from log linked above. Note can use ipkg list to find package.

ipkg install openssl-dev librsync zlib
ipkg install gcc make automake autoconf libtool binutils autoconf
ipkg install optware-devel

• Install uthash headers in /opt/include:

git clone https://github.com/troydhanson/uthash.git
cp uthash/src/ut* /opt/include/

• OpenSSL error: unable to find OpenSLL library

./configure --prefix=/opt --sysconfdir=/opt/etc/burp --localstatedir=/opt/var
# checking For OpenSSL... no
# configure: error: Unable to find OpenSSL library

This is due to undefined reference:

grep -iC 10 openssl config.log|less
# /opt/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib/libdl.so.2: undefined reference to `_dl_tls_get_addr_soft@GLIBC_PRIVATE'

We relink some libraries as suggested here. Let's relink them all:

cd /opt/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/
mv lib lib.original
ln -sf /lib lib
cd -

• Configure again, now fine:

./configure --prefix=/opt --sysconfdir=/opt/etc/burp --localstatedir=/opt/var

• Make

make
# ... error about missing aclocal...

Digging further, we see that aclocal does not work because it requires Perl built with threads enabled. For this we need Perl 5.22 from Optware-ng

Build on Optware-ng

To install

# Install dependencies
ipkg install openssl-dev librsync zlib
ipkg install gcc
ipkg install make automake autoconf libtool binutils autoconf
ipkg install optware-devel

# Install uthash headers in /opt/include:
git clone https://github.com/troydhanson/uthash.git
cp uthash/src/ut* /opt/include/

# Clone git repository
git clone https://github.com/grke/burp.git
cd burp
git checkout 2.1.6

# Generate the autoconf files
autoreconf -vif

# Configure
./configure --prefix=/opt --sysconfdir=/opt/etc/burp --localstatedir=/opt/var

# Make
make

# Install
make install
# Copied/created the following files/directories:
#   /opt/bin/vss_strip
#   /opt/sbin/burp
#   /opt/sbin/burp_ca
#   /opt/share/burp
#   /opt/share/doc/burp
#   /opt/share/man/man8/{bedup.8,bsigs.8,bsparse.8,burp.8,burp_ca.8,vss_strip.8}

# Install config
make install-configs
# Copied/created the following files/directories:
#     /opt/etc/burp

# If we want to create a .deb package:
# (Note: if fail, run make install install-configs w/o checkinstall first)
sudo checkinstall make install install-configs

Edit the following files:

• /etc/burp/burp-server.conf (for backup server)
• /etc/burp/burp.conf (for backup client)

Start the server with:

sudo burp -c /etc/burp/burp-server.conf

On the client, start a backup with:

sudo burp -a b

Monitor ongoing backups with:

sudo burp -s

Troubleshoot

SSL connect error

sudo burp -a b
# 2017-04-25 23:09:47: burp[30776] SSL connect error
# 140585554515608:error:1409441B:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:tlsv1 alert decrypt error:s3_pkt.c:1487:SSL alert number 51

This happens when using old certificates on backup client, typically after changing the configuration to point to another backup server [1].

cd /etc/burp
rm ssl_cert_ca.pem ssl_cert-client.key ssl_cert-client.pem