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