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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 | 6772 (5353 w/o comments, | 546 (375 w/o comments, |
| (2006-10-25) | 4794 w/o empty lines) | 288 w/o empty lines) |
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| 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/
