Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format

Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by rlpb on Saturday February 15, 2014 @06:11PM (#7245885)

I wrote ddar, which is basically this but solves that particular problem, by using something other than the git packfile format.

http://www.synctus.com/ddar and http://github.com/basak/ddar

It's recently been made available on Homebrew, too.

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Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by aristidb on Sunday February 16, 2014 @04:45AM (#7247159)

Nice. Could you add some description there how the deduplication works? I assume it uses rolling checksums to create chunk boundaries, just like bup?

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Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by rlpb on Sunday February 16, 2014 @12:07PM (#7248283)

> I assume it uses rolling checksums to create chunk boundaries, just like bup?

That's right.

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Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by rakoo on Saturday February 15, 2014 @06:26PM (#7245949)

I don't see a link to the source code on your page, is it just me ?

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Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by rlpb on Saturday February 15, 2014 @08:26PM (#7246255)

See my github link for the latest source. The other page predates me uploading to github, so there's only a tarball source download from there. I should move everything over to github now, really.

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Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by raphinou on Sunday February 16, 2014 @05:10AM (#7247204)

How actively is it developed? How reliable is it currently?

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Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi... by rlpb on Sunday February 16, 2014 @12:06PM (#7248279)

> How actively is it developed?

It's a simple tool that does a simple job. It's pretty much done.

> How reliable is it currently?

No known bugs.

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