ccollect.sh, Nico Schottelius, 2005-12-06

ccollect backups (local or remote) data to local or remote destinations.

You can retrieve 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].

Please use tools/report_success.sh to report success, if you are successfully using ccollect.

A small try to visualize the differences 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)

[0]: ccollect: http://unix.schottelius.org/ccollect/ [1]: rsnapshot: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ [2]: cconfig: http://nico.schotteli.us/papers/linux/cconfig/