Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : gibak Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Mauricio Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-backup-system-introduction * License : GPL => v2 and LGPL v2.1 Programming Lang: OCaml and bash Description : A better backup system based on Git As far as "standard" tools go, however, git provides a very nice infrastructure that can be used to build your own system, to wit: * it is more space-efficient than most incremental backup schemes, since it does file compression and both textual *and* binary deltas (in particular, it's better than solutions relying on hardlinks or incremental backups à la tar/cpio) * its transport mechanism is more efficient than rsync's * it is fast: recoving your data is *faster* than cp -a * you keep the full revision history * powerful toolset with a rich vocabulary Gibak retains all the advantages from Git, and supplements it in some key areas: * metadata support * management of submodules (nested Git repositories) * automation of common operations; for instance, a commit consists of several steps: o determining if some files which were committed earlier are ignored now and removing them from the index o adding new and modified files to the index o registering new git submodules and copying them to a special area under .git o committing changes in the index o compaction and optimization of the repository [ I will push a git repo onto colab-maint so if anyone wants to work as a team on this then just shout - especially if you are an OCaml wiz. ] -- Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
