Mathusalem Fast generic backup system for Mac OS X Leopard with support for local disks, AFP, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3.
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Fast generic backup system for Mac OS X Leopard with support for local disks, AFP, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3. Mathusalem is a robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.Mathusalem is complementary to Time Machine as it backups automatically one or more directories of your choice to remote servers in order ensure extra safety of your most important data. Mathusalem is an open source alternative to the Backup application that comes with .Mac / MobileMe in case you need more control or features. Here are some key features of "Mathusalem": · It supports a wide range of destinations: local drives, iDisk, WebDAV, AFP, FTP, SFTP or Amazon S3. · It can generate archives in various formats: sparse or compressed .dmg and CPIO or ZIP archives. · It generates fully self-contained backups i.e. data and settings which makes it possible to access them from any machine or even relocate them · It can restart a download or upload that failed or was cancelled by the user without having to restart the entire backup. · It runs in low-priority mode on your machine so it doesn't hang your CPU or hard drive. · It runs only when necessary (it is managed by launchd like other system services). · It is fully open-source which means no proprietary file formats (backup data files are plain XML) · It stores passwords in the Keychain. · It reports detailed information on the backup progress. · The command line tool version can be integrated in existing tool chains or used with launchd. Limitations: · It only cares about modifications of the actual file content, not of its attributes like access permissions. · To determine is a file has changed, it only looks at its modification date. · It does not follow symlinks. · It does not preserve owner and permissions on files or directories. · It does not preserve extended attributes on directories. · The initial backup requires as much extra space on the boot volume as the total size of the data being backed up. · You cannot "prune" old incremental backups. · It is not capable of splitting individual files when creating segmented backups. What's New in This Release: New Features: · FTP support now implements the delete operation · Backup data files are now cached locally for faster history browsing · Added support for Secure Amazon S3 (HTTPS) · French translation Bug Fixes: · Requires 1% of extra free space instead of 1Gb on local drive when creating archive so that backup works on small USB keys · Passwords can now contain the '?' character · Backup containing locked files do not fail anymore · Fixed hang that could happen when editing path exclusion lists · Path exclusion lists are now case-insensitive instead of case-sensitive

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