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Website: http://standish.home3.org/snap2
May 26, 2012: Released version 4.24
Here are the changelog entries for the last 5 updates:
26-May-2012 (snap2 4.24)
- (snap2engine remoteutils2) Bugfix: Roll back to previous handling of snapshot promotion, to allow e.g. zero daily snapshots with weekly snapshots.
- (snap2) Bugfix: If filesystem root ('/') is Backup Source Directory, backup exclusions could not be added.
(snap2) Bigfix: Upon deleting a Backup Source Directory, additional directories could possibly be deleted.
(snap2 snap2engine) Bugfix: Corrected command line messages when zero daily, weekly, or monthly backups are configured.
(snap2engine): Add special handling of root source directory ('/') backup exclusions
- (snap2) Improved user prompts about generation and use of SSH keys for remote server authentication. No functional changes.
- (snap2, remoteutils2.sh) changed remote SSH authentication method to "manual," add "Generate SSH Keys" button to "Advanced" tab.
23-Oct-2011 (snap2 4.20)
- (snap2, remoteutils2.sh) Correct issues with multi-core systems: correct remote SSH authentication detection and remove automatic remote authentication setup.
If you would like to keep 'snapshot's of your files (or, usually, a subset of your files) as they were hours ago, days ago, weeks ago, etc., this program will do that, automatically "spacing out" the backups over time.
Thanks to the use of hard links, it can keep several gigabytes of files on a one-gig USB drive, without compression. Your backups are accessed as ordinary directories and files.
It can also do backup to a remote server. Thanks to the hard link trick, duplicate files (from one backup to another) are "copied" without using disk space. And thanks to rsync magic, only changed portions of files are transmitted.
You access and browse your backups just as you would ordinary directories and files, with any file manager. Despite the huge savings in disk space through the use of hard links, no compression is used. This allows you to easily inspect backup files and compare one version of a file with another.
I keep about 1.4 gigs of files from my home directory backed up to my VPS (remote server), over a regular broadband connection, and the whole process usually only takes a couple of minutes (since only new and changed files need to be sent.)
Here are some screenshots directly from my home directory backup configuration. There is a screenshot for each of the program's 3 tabs:
'Directories to Back Up' Tab:
'Backup Storage' Tab:
'Logs & Reports' Tab:
'Advanced' Tab:
'Automatic Backup Scheduler':
'Backup File Exclusions Editor':
Here's the link to the program website:
http://standish.home3.org/snap2
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