gibak gibak - Free and open source backup tool based on Git
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gibak - Free and open source backup tool based on Git gibak is a free and open source backup tool based on Git. Since gibak builds upon the infrastructure offered by Git, it shares its main strengths:· speed: recovering your data is faster that cp -a...· full revision history· space-efficient data store, with file compression and textual/binary deltas· efficient transport protocol to replicate the backup (faster than rsync)gibak uses Git's hook system to save and restore the information Git doesn't track itself such as permissions, empty directories and optionally extended attributes and mtime fields.Requirements:· Git (tested with git version 1.5.4.2, might work with earlier versions)· rsync >= 2.6.4 (released on 30 March 2005), used to manage nested git repositories (submodules)· common un*x userland: bash, basename, grep, egrep, pwd, hostname, cut, date...· OCaml and omake (to compile gibak)NOTE: gibak is licensed and provided under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

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