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. 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/. ## Documentation The latest documentation that is based on the current development version: * the ccollect handbook text, HTML, HTML (docbook), * the ccollect manpage text, troff HTML HTML (docbook) * screenshots. ### Portability As ccollect is a simple shell script, it should run on any POSIX compatible OS. It is known or reported to run on: * FreeBSD: amd64/i386 * Linux: alpha/hppa/ppc/i386 * NetBSD: alpha/sparc64/i386/amd64 * OpenBSD: amd64 Feel free to send an e-mail if you are running ccollect on another OS or architecture. For more information regarding portability have a look at the [[u2u|net/u2u]] idea. ### Sample configurations * Configuration for ccollect 0.4 or later from buche.intern.schottelius.org * Configuration for ccollect 0.3.3 or earlier from eiche.intern.schottelius.org ### Quotes Thorsten Elle, Dr.-Ing. Hallo, auf der Suche nach einer Lösung für meine Backups (Debian/amd64) bin ich auf ccollect gestoßen. Ist wirklich ein tolles Skript / System und mein Favorit. [...] Folken thx for an uncomplicated, easy and straightforward backup solution. Matteo Contri Hi Nico, first of all: congratulation for ccollect, a really lovely script! i've tried a lot of backup solution (veritas netbackup, rsnapshot, bacula) but no other software is so simple and effective. ccollect resolves 93% of backup problems in few minutes with standard tools. Benedikt Köppel Hi Nico, thank you very much for your great software ccollect. I just started using it to backup my notebook, my server and all computers of my family. Norbert Titko works like charm (just upgraded to 0.7.1) John Lawless Dear Nico Schottelius, I have started using ccollect and I very much like its design: it is elegant and effective. Patrick Drolet Hello, Thank you for making ccollect public; it is a very nice and well written utility. I am using it to backup two NAS (DNS323 and QNAP TS-209) across the Internet, where bandwidth and upload/download quota is limited. 三宅 兼人 (Kanehito Miyake) P.S. Thanks you for offering a nice & pretty backup tools. It is very fit in me. ## Getting ccollect ### Development versions You can get the latest (development) version via git: git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git Additionally, the following other git ressources are available: * [Gitweb](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=cLinux/ccollect.git;a=summary). * [Mirror at github](http://github.com/telmich/ccollect/tree/master) ### Releases * [[ccollect-0.8.tar.bz2]] ([browse source](ccollect-0.8)) ([[Changes|ccollect-0.8/doc/changes/0.8]]) ([[RPM|ccollect-0.8-0.noarch.rpm]]) * ccollect-0.7.1.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.7.0.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.6.2.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.6.1.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.6.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.5.2.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.5.1.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.5.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.4.2.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.4.1.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.4.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.3.3.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.3.2.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.3.1.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.3.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.2.tar.bz2 (browse source) (Changes) * ccollect-0.1.tar.bz2 (browse source) #### Gentoo ccollect is included into gentoo portage. Thanks to René Nussbaumer. ### Debian The Debian archives provided by Marcus Wagner (deb http://deb.notestc.de/ clinux/) and Daniel Aubry (deb http://debian.syhosting.ch/ software/) are currently outdated. Feel free to use their work to create recent debs or even include it into Debian. ## Support * There is a general [ccollect mailing list](http://l.schottelius.org/mailman/listinfo/ccollect) available. * **Warning**: Only subscribers can post. * You can join the development ***IRC channel*** [#cLinux on irc.freenode.org](irc://irc.freenode.org/#cLinux). ## Related websites * [RadioTux](http://blog.radiotux.de) reports about ccollect in the [[RadioTux@HoRadS #76 edition|dokumentationen/radiotux-horads-76]]. * The German magazine [Linux-Magazin](http://www.linux-magazin.de/) contains the article [[writes about ccollect|dokumentationen/linuxmagazin-clevere-datensicherung-mit-ccollect]]. * The German magazine [Linux User](http://www.linuxuser.de/) [[writes about ccollect in the 2009/08 edition|about/press]]. * [ccollect-config](http://0xf00.de/ccollect-config.html) - a configuration tool written by Frederic Jaeckel * [German report about ccollect including a description of reverse ssh tunnels](http://muasch.ch/article/show/ccollect-backup-software) by Benedikt Köppel, [[!tag unix backup]]