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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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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 changes
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are stored.
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Easy to use
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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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Main features
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Space efficient storage
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Variable block size deduplication is used to reduce the number of bytes
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stored by detecting redundant data. Each file is split into a number of
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variable length chunks and only chunks that have never been seen before are
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compressed and added to the repository.
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Optional data encryption
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All data can be protected using 256-bit AES encryption and data integrity
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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. 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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verification and restores.
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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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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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::
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$ pip install Attic
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Where are the docs?
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Go to https://attic-backup.org/ 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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The tests are in the attic/testsuite package. To run the test suite use the
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following command::
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$ fakeroot -u python -m attic.testsuite.run
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