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| author | Christopher Rogers <slaxemulator@gmail.com> |
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| date | Fri Oct 15 19:40:02 2010 +0000 (2010-10-15) |
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1 BoxBackup Client (bbackupd)
3 BoxBackup is designed to be easy to set up and run, and cheap to use.
4 Once set up, there should be no need for user or administrative
5 intervention, apart from usual system maintenance.
7 bbackupd is configured with a list of directories to back up. It has a
8 lazy approach to backing up data. Every so often, the directories are
9 scanned, and new data is uploaded to the server.
11 The daemon is always running, although sleeping most of the time. In
12 lazy mode, it is completely self contained - scripts running under cron
13 jobs are not used.
15 If an old version of the file is present on the server, a modified
16 version of the rsync algorithm is used to upload only the changed
17 portions of the file.
19 After a new version is uploaded, the old version is still available
20 (subject to disc space on the server). Similarly, a deleted file is
21 still available. The only limit to their availability is space allocated
22 to this account on the server.