wok-4.x annotate boxbackup-client/description.txt @ rev 1390
Up: htpop 0.8
| author | Eric Joseph-Alexandre <erjo@slitaz.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed Sep 17 23:51:27 2008 +0200 (2008-09-17) |
| parents | |
| children |
| rev | line source |
|---|---|
| domcox@1357 | 1 BoxBackup Client (bbackupd) |
| domcox@1357 | 2 |
| domcox@1357 | 3 BoxBackup is designed to be easy to set up and run, and cheap to use. |
| domcox@1357 | 4 Once set up, there should be no need for user or administrative |
| domcox@1357 | 5 intervention, apart from usual system maintenance. |
| domcox@1357 | 6 |
| domcox@1357 | 7 bbackupd is configured with a list of directories to back up. It has a |
| domcox@1357 | 8 lazy approach to backing up data. Every so often, the directories are |
| domcox@1357 | 9 scanned, and new data is uploaded to the server. |
| domcox@1357 | 10 |
| domcox@1357 | 11 The daemon is always running, although sleeping most of the time. In |
| domcox@1357 | 12 lazy mode, it is completely self contained - scripts running under cron |
| domcox@1357 | 13 jobs are not used. |
| domcox@1357 | 14 |
| domcox@1357 | 15 If an old version of the file is present on the server, a modified |
| domcox@1357 | 16 version of the rsync algorithm is used to upload only the changed |
| domcox@1357 | 17 portions of the file. |
| domcox@1357 | 18 |
| domcox@1357 | 19 After a new version is uploaded, the old version is still available |
| domcox@1357 | 20 (subject to disc space on the server). Similarly, a deleted file is |
| domcox@1357 | 21 still available. The only limit to their availability is space allocated |
| domcox@1357 | 22 to this account on the server. |