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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
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Attic is a deduplicating backup program. The main goal of Attic is to provide
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an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication
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technique used makes Attic suitable for daily backups since only actual changes
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technique used makes Attic suitable for daily backups since only changes
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are stored.
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Easy to use
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~~~~~~~~~~~
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Initialze backup repository and create a backup archive::
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Initialize backup repository and create a backup archive::
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$ attic init /usbdrive/my-backup.attic
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$ attic create -v /usbdrive/my-backup.attic::documents ~/Documents
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and authenticity is verified using HMAC-SHA256.
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Off-site backups
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attic can store data on any remote host accessible over SSH as long as
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attic is installed.
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Attic can store data on any remote host accessible over SSH. This is
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most efficient if Attic is also installed on the remote host.
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Backups mountable as filesystems
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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
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Attic requires Python 3.2 or above to work. Besides Python, Attic also requires
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msgpack-python and sufficiently recent OpenSSL (>= 1.0.0).
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In order to mount archives as filesystems, llfuse is required.
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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
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can also build them yourself form the docs folder.
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Go to https://pythonhosted.org/Attic/ for a prebuilt version of the documentation.
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You can also build it yourself from the docs folder.
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Where are the tests?
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--------------------
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type=location_validator(archive=True),
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help='archive to display information about')
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prune_epilog = '''The prune command prunes a repository by deleting archives
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not matching any of the specified retention options. This command is normally
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used by automated backup scripts wanting to keep a certain number of historic
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backups. As an example, "-d 7" means to keep the latest backup on each day
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for 7 days. Days without backups do not count towards the total. The rules
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are applied from hourly to yearly, and backups selected by previous rules do
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not count towards those of later rules. Dates and times are interpreted in
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the local timezone, and weeks go from Monday to Sunday. Specifying a
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negative number of archives to keep means that there is no limit. If a
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prefix is set with -p, then only archives that start with the prefix are
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considered for deletion and only those archives count towards the totals
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specified by the rules.'''
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subparser = subparsers.add_parser('prune', parents=[common_parser],
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description=self.do_prune.__doc__)
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description=self.do_prune.__doc__,
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epilog=prune_epilog)
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subparser.set_defaults(func=self.do_prune)
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subparser.add_argument('-H', '--hourly', dest='hourly', type=int, default=0,
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help='number of hourly archives to keep')
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.. _OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org/
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.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
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.. _`msgpack-python`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/msgpack-python/
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.. _llfuse: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/llfuse/
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.. _homebrew: http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/
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.. _issue tracker: https://github.com/jborg/attic/issues
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.. _userspace filesystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
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|project_name| is a deduplicating backup program written in Python.
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The main goal of |project_name| is to provide an efficient and secure way
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to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes |project_name|
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suitable for daily backups since only actual changes are stored.
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suitable for daily backups since only the changes are stored.
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Easy to use
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Getting help
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============
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If you've found a bug or have a concrete feature request you can add your bug
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report or feature request directly to the project `issue tracker`_. For more
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general questions or discussions a post to the mailing list is preferred.
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If you've found a bug or have a concrete feature request, you can add your bug
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report or feature request directly to the project's `issue tracker`_. For more
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general questions or discussions, a post to the mailing list is preferred.
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Mailing list
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------------
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There is a mailing list for Attic on librelist_ you can use for feature
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There is a mailing list for Attic on librelist_ that you can use for feature
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requests and general discussions about Attic. A mailing list archive is
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available `here <http://librelist.com/browser/attic/>`_.
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To subscribe to the list send an email to attic@librelist.com and reply
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to the confirmation mail. Likevise To unsubscribe send an email to
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To subscribe to the list, send an email to attic@librelist.com and reply
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to the confirmation mail. Likewise, to unsubscribe, send an email to
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attic-unsubscribe@librelist.com and reply to the confirmation mail.
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============
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|project_name| requires Python_ 3.2 or above to work. Even though Python 3 is
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not the default Python version on most Linux distributions it is usually
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not the default Python version on most Linux distributions, it is usually
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available as an optional install.
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Other dependencies:
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The OpenSSL version bundled with Mac OS X and FreeBSD is most likey too old.
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Newer versions are available from homebrew_ on OS X and from FreeBSD ports.
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The llfuse_ python package is also required if you wish to mount an
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archive as a FUSE filesystem.
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Installing from PyPI using pip
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::
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$ cd attic
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$ python setup.py install
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Please not that when installing from git Cython_ is required to generate some files that
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Please note that when installing from git, Cython_ is required to generate some files that
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are normally bundled with the release tarball.
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Packages
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|project_name| is also part of the Debian_, Ubuntu_ and `Arch Linux`_
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distributions of GNU/Linux.
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Remote repositories
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|project_name| can initialize and access repositories on remote hosts as the
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host is accessible using SSH and |project_name| is installed.
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The following syntax is used to address remote repositories::
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|project_name| can initialize and access repositories on remote hosts if the
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host is accessible using SSH. This is fastest and easiest when |project_name|
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is installed on the remote host, in which case the following syntax is used::
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$ attic init user@hostname:repository.attic
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or::
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$ attic init ssh://user@hostname:port/repository.attic
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If it is not possible to install |project_name| on the remote host,
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it is still possible to use the remote host to store a repository by
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mounting the remote filesystem, for example, using sshfs::
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$ sshfs user@hostname:/path/to/folder /tmp/mymountpoint
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$ attic init /tmp/mymountpoint/repository.attic
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$ fusermount -u /tmp/mymountpoint
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This command creates a backup archive containing all files found while
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recursively traversing all paths specified. The archive will consume almost
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no disk space for files or parts of files that has already been archived by
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no disk space for files or parts of files that have already been stored in
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other archives.
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Examples
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# Backups ~/Documents into an archive named "my-documents"
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# Backup ~/Documents into an archive named "my-documents"
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$ attic create /data/myrepo.attic::my-documents ~/Documents
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# Backup ~/Documents and ~/src but exclude pyc files
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$ attic create /data/myrepo.attic::my-files \
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~/Documents \
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~/src \
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--exclude *.pyc
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--exclude '*.pyc'
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# Backup the root filesystem into an archive named "root-YYYY-MM-DD"
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NAME="root-`date +%Y-%m-%d`"
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$ attic extract /data/myrepo::my-files home/USERNAME/src
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# Extract the "src" directory but exclude object files
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$ attic extract /data/myrepo::my-files home/USERNAME/src --exclude *.o
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$ attic extract /data/myrepo::my-files home/USERNAME/src --exclude '*.o'
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.. include:: usage/verify.rst.inc
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.. include:: usage/prune.rst.inc
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The ``prune`` command prunes a repository by deleting archives not matching
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any of the specified retention options specified. This command is normally
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used by automated backup scripts wanting to keep a certain number of historic
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~~~~~~~~
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# Keep 7 end of day and 4 end of week archives
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# Keep 7 end of day and 4 additional end of week archives
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$ attic prune /data/myrepo --daily=7 --weekly=4
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# Same as above but only apply to archive names starting with "foo"
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$ attic prune /data/myrepo --daily=7 --weekly=4 --prefix=foo
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# Keep 7 end of day, 4 additional end of week archives, and an
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# end of month archive for every month:
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$ attic prune /data/myrepo --daily=7 --weekly=4 --monthly=-1
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.. include:: usage/info.rst.inc
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number of yearly archives to keep
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-p PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
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only consider archive names starting with this prefix
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The prune command prunes a repository by deleting archives not matching any of
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example, "-d 7" means to keep the latest backup on each day for 7 days. Days
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without backups do not count towards the total. The rules are applied from
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and weeks go from Monday to Sunday. Specifying a negative number of archives
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to keep means that there is no limit. If a prefix is set with -p, then only
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Description
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~~~~~~~~~~~
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