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What is Attic?
--------------
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
~~~~~~~~~~~
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?
---------------
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?
-------------------
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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type=location_validator(archive=True),
help='archive to display information about')
prune_epilog = '''The prune command prunes a repository by deleting archives
not matching any of the specified retention options. This command is normally
used by automated backup scripts wanting to keep a certain number of historic
backups. As an example, "-d 7" means to keep the latest backup on each day
for 7 days. Days without backups do not count towards the total. The rules
are applied from hourly to yearly, and backups selected by previous rules do
not count towards those of later rules. Dates and times are interpreted in
the local timezone, and weeks go from Monday to Sunday. Specifying a
negative number of archives to keep means that there is no limit. If a
prefix is set with -p, then only archives that start with the prefix are
considered for deletion and only those archives count towards the totals
specified by the rules.'''
subparser = subparsers.add_parser('prune', parents=[common_parser],
description=self.do_prune.__doc__)
description=self.do_prune.__doc__,
epilog=prune_epilog)
subparser.set_defaults(func=self.do_prune)
subparser.add_argument('-H', '--hourly', dest='hourly', type=int, default=0,
help='number of hourly archives to keep')

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.. _OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org/
.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _`msgpack-python`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/msgpack-python/
.. _llfuse: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/llfuse/
.. _homebrew: http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/
.. _issue tracker: https://github.com/jborg/attic/issues
.. _userspace filesystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace

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|project_name| is a deduplicating backup program written in Python.
The main goal of |project_name| is to provide an efficient and secure way
to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes |project_name|
suitable for daily backups since only actual changes are stored.
suitable for daily backups since only the changes are stored.
Easy to use
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Getting help
============
If you've found a bug or have a concrete feature request you can add your bug
report or feature request directly to the project `issue tracker`_. For more
general questions or discussions a post to the mailing list is preferred.
If you've found a bug or have a concrete feature request, you can add your bug
report or feature request directly to the project's `issue tracker`_. For more
general questions or discussions, a post to the mailing list is preferred.
Mailing list
------------
There is a mailing list for Attic on librelist_ you can use for feature
There is a mailing list for Attic on librelist_ that you can use for feature
requests and general discussions about Attic. A mailing list archive is
available `here <http://librelist.com/browser/attic/>`_.
To subscribe to the list send an email to attic@librelist.com and reply
to the confirmation mail. Likevise To unsubscribe send an email to
To subscribe to the list, send an email to attic@librelist.com and reply
to the confirmation mail. Likewise, to unsubscribe, send an email to
attic-unsubscribe@librelist.com and reply to the confirmation mail.

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============
|project_name| requires Python_ 3.2 or above to work. Even though Python 3 is
not the default Python version on most Linux distributions it is usually
not the default Python version on most Linux distributions, it is usually
available as an optional install.
Other dependencies:
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The OpenSSL version bundled with Mac OS X and FreeBSD is most likey too old.
Newer versions are available from homebrew_ on OS X and from FreeBSD ports.
The llfuse_ python package is also required if you wish to mount an
archive as a FUSE filesystem.
Installing from PyPI using pip
------------------------------
::
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$ cd attic
$ python setup.py install
Please not that when installing from git Cython_ is required to generate some files that
Please note that when installing from git, Cython_ is required to generate some files that
are normally bundled with the release tarball.
Packages
--------
|project_name| is also part of the Debian_, Ubuntu_ and `Arch Linux`_
distributions of GNU/Linux.

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Remote repositories
-------------------
|project_name| can initialize and access repositories on remote hosts as the
host is accessible using SSH and |project_name| is installed.
The following syntax is used to address remote repositories::
|project_name| can initialize and access repositories on remote hosts if the
host is accessible using SSH. This is fastest and easiest when |project_name|
is installed on the remote host, in which case the following syntax is used::
$ attic init user@hostname:repository.attic
or::
$ attic init ssh://user@hostname:port/repository.attic
If it is not possible to install |project_name| on the remote host,
it is still possible to use the remote host to store a repository by
mounting the remote filesystem, for example, using sshfs::
$ sshfs user@hostname:/path/to/folder /tmp/mymountpoint
$ attic init /tmp/mymountpoint/repository.attic
$ fusermount -u /tmp/mymountpoint

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This command creates a backup archive containing all files found while
recursively traversing all paths specified. The archive will consume almost
no disk space for files or parts of files that has already been archived by
no disk space for files or parts of files that have already been stored in
other archives.
Examples
~~~~~~~~
::
# Backups ~/Documents into an archive named "my-documents"
# Backup ~/Documents into an archive named "my-documents"
$ attic create /data/myrepo.attic::my-documents ~/Documents
# Backup ~/Documents and ~/src but exclude pyc files
$ attic create /data/myrepo.attic::my-files \
~/Documents \
~/src \
--exclude *.pyc
--exclude '*.pyc'
# Backup the root filesystem into an archive named "root-YYYY-MM-DD"
NAME="root-`date +%Y-%m-%d`"
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$ attic extract /data/myrepo::my-files home/USERNAME/src
# Extract the "src" directory but exclude object files
$ attic extract /data/myrepo::my-files home/USERNAME/src --exclude *.o
$ attic extract /data/myrepo::my-files home/USERNAME/src --exclude '*.o'
.. include:: usage/verify.rst.inc
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.. include:: usage/prune.rst.inc
The ``prune`` command prunes a repository by deleting archives not matching
any of the specified retention options specified. This command is normally
any of the specified retention options. This command is normally
used by automated backup scripts wanting to keep a certain number of historic
backups.
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~~~~~~~~
::
# Keep 7 end of day and 4 end of week archives
# Keep 7 end of day and 4 additional end of week archives
$ attic prune /data/myrepo --daily=7 --weekly=4
# Same as above but only apply to archive names starting with "foo"
$ attic prune /data/myrepo --daily=7 --weekly=4 --prefix=foo
# Keep 7 end of day, 4 additional end of week archives, and an
# end of month archive for every month:
$ attic prune /data/myrepo --daily=7 --weekly=4 --monthly=-1
.. include:: usage/info.rst.inc

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number of yearly archives to keep
-p PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
only consider archive names starting with this prefix
The prune command prunes a repository by deleting archives not matching any of
the specified retention options. This command is normally used by automated
backup scripts wanting to keep a certain number of historic backups. As an
example, "-d 7" means to keep the latest backup on each day for 7 days. Days
without backups do not count towards the total. The rules are applied from
hourly to yearly, and backups selected by previous rules do not count towards
those of later rules. Dates and times are interpreted in the local timezone,
and weeks go from Monday to Sunday. Specifying a negative number of archives
to keep means that there is no limit. If a prefix is set with -p, then only
archives that start with the prefix are considered for deletion and only those
archives count towards the totals specified by the rules.
Description
~~~~~~~~~~~