Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist
snap2 combines the convenience of full backups with the speed and backup storage economy of incremental backups. The snap2 package consists basically of a non-interactive shell script (snap2engine) and an interactive GUI (snap2) for configuring and optionally running the backup. Since this program is normally configured and run (directly or via cron) by via snap2 GUI, no manual editing of configuration files or running from the command line is needed. snap2 does rotating 'shapshot' backups as well as 'mirror' type (single copy) backups. When using the snapshot backup method, snap2 uses hard links to copy identical files on the backup drive. This greatly reduces the disk space required on the backup drive, allowing several gigs of backup 'snapshots' to fit on a one-gig USB flash drive. In addition, when backing up a file that was modified since the last backup, the rsync backend only needs to transmit the changed portions of the file in order to create the new backup file. This saves bandwidth, particularly important for backup to a remote host (via Internet). snap2 is available at http://www.linuxbackups.org/download License: GNU GPL v3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
