RKrahl / archive-tools

Tools for managing archives
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Implement backup tool #70

Closed RKrahl closed 2 years ago

RKrahl commented 2 years ago

This add a backup-tool script that is designed to be regularly run in a background job to archive a set of directories. It allows to create incremental archives, e.g. to archive only files that have been modified since earlier runs of the tool. The complex behavior is almost entirely controlled by a configuration file.

The implementation is provided by some modules in the internal package archive.bt. It is based on earlier enhancements, such as

This closes #52.