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cleanup some sections in ccollect 

Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@ikn.schottelius.org>
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<P ALIGN="center">
<a href="screenshots/">
![ccollect-0.7.1](screenshots/ccollect-0.7.1.png "Example output of ccollect")
![ccollect-0.7.1](screenshots/ccollect-0.6-screenshot-20070816.png "Example output of ccollect")
![ccollect-0.7.1](screenshots/ccollect-0.7.1-screenshot-20090527.png "Example output of ccollect-0.6")
</a>
<P>ccollect backups data from local and remote hosts to your local harddisk.
Although ccollect creates full backups, it requires very less space on
the backup medium, because ccollect uses hardlinks to create an initial
copy of the last backup. Only the inodes used by the hardlinks and
the changed files need additional space.
Although ccollect creates full backups, it requires very less space on the
backup medium, because ccollect uses hardlinks to create an initial copy of
the last backup. Only the inodes used by the hardlinks and the changed files
need additional space.
ccollect uses [rsync](http://www.samba.org/rsync/)
for synchronisation. Since ccollect-0.2 there is
[asciidoc](http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/)
ccollect uses [rsync](http://www.samba.org/rsync/) for synchronisation.
Since ccollect-0.2 there is [asciidoc](http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/)
based documentation included in the distribution (see below).
You should also be able to configure ccollect with the help of the example
configuration in conf/.
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is outdated and thus removed.
### Portability
As ccollect is written in simple sh-script, it should run on
As ccollect is a simple shell script, it should run on
any POSIX compatible OS. It is known or reported to run on:
<ul>
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<li>NetBSD: alpha/sparc64/i386/amd64
<li>OpenBSD: amd64
</ul>
Feel free to send me an e-mail if you've ccollect running on another
Feel free to send an e-mail if you are running ccollect on another
OS or architecture.
### Sample configurations
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<li><a href="config/ccollect-eiche-2006-02-05.tar.bz2">Configuration
for ccollect 0.3.3 or earlier from eiche.intern.schottelius.org</a>
</ul>
<h3>Getting ccollect</h3>
<h4>via git</h4>
<pre>
git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git
or
git clone http://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git
</pre>
### Getting ccollect
You can get the latest (development) version via git:
git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git
A git mirror can be found at
* [github](http://github.com/telmich/ccollect/tree/master)
Alternatively, you can
<A HREF="http://git.schottelius.org/?p=cLinux/ccollect.git;a=summary">look
at the current status in gitweb</A>.
[look at the current
status in gitweb](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=cLinux/ccollect.git;a=summary).
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<h4>Releases</h4>
<ul>