Nico Schottelius
(linux|unix).schottelius.org

ccollect

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

ccollect 0.4

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 for synchronisation. Since ccollect-0.2 there is 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

Latest documentation is available in the following formats and languages: (English is the primary documentation, others may be outdated) There are now also some screenshots available.

Portability

As ccollect is written in simple sh-script, it should run on any POSIX compatible OS. It is known or reported to run on: Feel free to send me an e-mail if you've ccollect running on another OS or architecture.

Sample configurations

Getting ccollect

via git

The project name of ccollect is "cLinux/ccollect.git". Read how to get a project via git. Alternatively, you can look at the current status in git

Releases

gentoo

ccollect is included into gentoo portage. Thanks to René Nussbaumer.

Debian packages

Marcus Wagner makes ccollect available as Debian packages.
To get ccollect insert the following line into your /etc/apt/sources.list: 

deb http://deb.notestc.de/ clinux/
Daniel Aubry also created a Debian package containing ccollect. To use his archive, add the following line into your /etc/apt/sources.list: 
deb http://debian.syhosting.ch/ software/

After adding one of the above sources.list entries do 

apt-get update && apt-get install ccollect

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