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(pseudo) incremental backup with different exclude lists using hardlinks and rsync
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README 

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ccollect.sh, Nico Schottelius, 2005-12-06
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ccollect backups data from local or remote hosts to your local harddisk.


You can retriev the latest version of ccollect at [0].

ccollect was inspired by rsnapshot [1], which has some problems:
   - configuration parameters has to be TAB seperated
   - you can not specify per source exclude lists
   - no per source pre/post execution support
   - no parallel execution
   - does unecessary moving of backup directories
   - I didn't like the configuration at all, so I used the cconfig style [2].


A small try to visualize the differnces in a table:

+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|     What?     |         rsnapshot            |         ccollect             | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Configuration | tab separated, needs         |     plain cconfig-style      | 
|               | parsing                      |                              | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Per source    |                              |                              | 
| post-/pre-    |            no                |            yes               | 
| execution     |                              |                              | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Per source    |                              |                              | 
| exclude lists |            no                |            yes               | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Parallel      |                              |                              | 
| execution     |                              |                              | 
| of multiple   |            no                |            yes               | 
| backups       |                              |                              | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Programming   |            perl              |            sh                | 
| language      |                              |      (posix compatible)      | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Lines of code |            6636              |             476              | 
| (2006-10-25)  |                              |                              | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|    Age        |  Available since 2002/2003   |    Written at 2005-11-14     | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+

Included documentation:

doc/ccollect.text          Manual in text format
doc/ccollect.html          Manual in xhtml (generated)

doc/ccollect-DE.text       German manual in text format (externally maintained)
doc/ccollect-DE.html       German manual in xhtml (generated)

doc/man/ccollect.text      Manpage in text format
doc/man/ccollect.man       Manpage in manpage format (generated)

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[0]: ccollect:    http://unix.schottelius.org/ccollect/
[1]: rsnapshot:   http://www.rsnapshot.org/
[2]: cconfig:     http://nico.schotteli.us/papers/linux/cconfig/