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Re: Bug#294990: ITP: bontmia -- backup over network to multiple incremental archives



Out of curiosity, how does this program is different from dirvish? 

* Reto Schuettel (reto@schuettel.ch) wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Reto Schuettel <reto@schuettel.ch>
> 
> 
> * Package name    : bontmia
>   Version         : 0.14
>   Upstream Author : John Enok Vollestad <john.enok@vollestad.no>
> * URL             : http://folk.uio.no/johnen/bontmia/
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : backup over network to multiple incremental archives
> 
> bontmia creates incremental snapshots of a list of given directories
> over the network by using rsync over ssh and hard links. Every snapshot
> looks for the user like a complete copy of all the files, but as a result
> of using hard links every unchanged copy of a file is stored only once on
> the hard disk.
> 
> The user can specify how old backups should be stored/kept. For example it's possible
> to keep the daily snapshots of the last 14 days, but also keep one
> snapshot per month of the last 12 months. The used network bandwidth can
> also be limited to avoid affecting production systems.

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