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

![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 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 You can read * the ccollect handbook as text, HTML, HTML (docbook), * the ccollect manpage as text, troff HTML HTML (docbook) * or view some screenshots. There used to be a German translation of the handbook, but it is outdated and thus removed. ### 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

git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git
or
git clone http://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git
Alternatively, you can look at the current status in gitweb.

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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