flatback release 1
flatback is a simple, space efficent backup utility.
Dependencies
zlib
gcc
other basic system utilities and libraries
Configure flatback
Nothing here yet
Compile flatback
cd flatback
./Make.sh
Run flatback
./flatback
Configure flatcheck
Nothing here yet
Compile flatcheck
cd flatcheck
./Make.sh
Run flatcheck
./flatcheck
Contact
See the savannah page for contact information. http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/flatback/
Features
- flatback creates space effecient archives rapidly, without seeking.
- Large files are supported.
- Volumes can be of any size but sizes must remain constant across the archive
- endian differences are detected and an error is reported.
- Standard stat() filesystem data is stored for all files.
- Hardlinks are stored only once.
- Only 1 temporary file is created (for index).
- No external programs are relied upon.
- Compression is optional and when enabled, only used when the compressed entity is smaller than the original.
- Individual checksums are stored for both the metadata and the original uncompressed file data.
- flatcheck provides a simple way to verify archive integrity with or without comparing the archive to the files on the filesystem.