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What is Attic?
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Attic is a deduplicating backup program. The main goal of attic is to provide
Attic is a deduplicating backup program. The main goal of Attic is to provide
an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication
technique used makes Attic suitable for daily backups since only actual changes
technique used makes Attic suitable for daily backups since only changes
are stored.
Easy to use
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Initialze backup repository and create a backup archive::
Initialize backup repository and create a backup archive::
$ attic init /usbdrive/my-backup.attic
$ attic create -v /usbdrive/my-backup.attic::documents ~/Documents
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and authenticity is verified using HMAC-SHA256.
Off-site backups
attic can store data on any remote host accessible over SSH as long as
attic is installed.
Attic can store data on any remote host accessible over SSH. This is
most efficient if Attic is also installed on the remote host.
Backups mountable as filesystems
Backup archives are mountable as userspace filesystems for easy backup
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What do I need?
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Attic requires Python 3.2 or above to work. Besides Python attic also requires
Attic requires Python 3.2 or above to work. Besides Python, Attic also requires
msgpack-python and sufficiently recent OpenSSL (>= 1.0.0).
In order to mount archives as filesystems, llfuse is required.
How do I install it?
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Where are the docs?
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Go to https://pythonhosted.org/Attic/ for a prebuilt version of the docs. You
can also build them yourself form the docs folder.
Go to https://pythonhosted.org/Attic/ for a prebuilt version of the documentation.
You can also build it yourself from the docs folder.
Where are the tests?
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