Original author(s) | Development status Active | |
Initial release 3 January 2010; 7 years ago (2010-01-03) Stable release 0.28.1 / 12 June 2016; 8 months ago (2016-06-12) Operating system | ||
Bup is a Backup system written in Python. It uses several formats from GIT but capable of handling very large files like OS images. It has block-based deduplication and optional par2-based error correction.
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History
Bup development began in 2010 and was accepted to Debian the same year.
Design
Bup uses the git packfile format writing packfiles directly avoiding the GC.
Availability
Bup is available from source and notably part of the following distributions
References
Bup Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA