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ccollect - (pseudo) incremental backup with different exclude lists using hardlinks and rsync

ccollect-0.7.1

ccollect backups data from local and remote hosts to your local harddisk. Although ccollect creates full backups, it requires very less space on the backup medium, because ccollect uses hardlinks to create an initial copy of the last backup. Only the inodes used by the hardlinks and the changed files need additional space.

ccollect uses rsync for synchronisation. Since ccollect-0.2 there is asciidoc based documentation included in the distribution (see below). You should also be able to configure ccollect with the help of the example configuration in conf/.

Documentation

You can read

There used to be a German translation of the handbook, but it is outdated and thus removed.

Portability

As ccollect is a simple shell script, it should run on any POSIX compatible OS. It is known or reported to run on:

Feel free to send an e-mail if you are running ccollect on another OS or architecture.

For more information regarding portability have a look at the u2u idea.

Sample configurations

Getting ccollect

Development versions

You can get the latest (development) version via git:

git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git

Additionally, the following other git ressources are available:

Releases

Gentoo

ccollect is included into gentoo portage. Thanks to René Nussbaumer.

Debian

Marcus Wagner makes ccollect available as Debian packages.
To get ccollect insert the following line into your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://deb.notestc.de/ clinux/

Daniel Aubry also created a Debian package containing ccollect. To use his archive, add the following line into your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://debian.syhosting.ch/ software/

After adding one of the above sources.list entries do

apt-get update && apt-get install ccollect

Support

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