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Bup

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Original author(s)
  
Avery Pennarun

Written in
  
Python, Bash, C

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
  
Linux, OS X, NetBSD, Solaris, Cygwin

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

  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • Arch Linux
  • pkgsrc (NetBSD etc.)

    • References

    Bup Wikipedia
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