{"id":13551017,"url":"https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc","last_synced_at":"2025-05-15T14:04:24.204Z","repository":{"id":7714223,"uuid":"9079569","full_name":"backuppc/backuppc","owner":"backuppc","description":"BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk.","archived":false,"fork":false,"pushed_at":"2024-07-26T12:23:29.000Z","size":5615,"stargazers_count":1420,"open_issues_count":179,"forks_count":190,"subscribers_count":77,"default_branch":"master","last_synced_at":"2025-04-11T22:38:04.713Z","etag":null,"topics":[],"latest_commit_sha":null,"homepage":"","language":"Perl","has_issues":true,"has_wiki":null,"has_pages":null,"mirror_url":null,"source_name":null,"license":"gpl-3.0","status":null,"scm":"git","pull_requests_enabled":true,"icon_url":"https://github.com/backuppc.png","metadata":{"files":{"readme":"README.md","changelog":"ChangeLog","contributing":null,"funding":null,"license":"LICENSE","code_of_conduct":null,"threat_model":null,"audit":null,"citation":null,"codeowners":null,"security":null,"support":null,"governance":null,"roadmap":null,"authors":null,"dei":null,"publiccode":null,"codemeta":null}},"created_at":"2013-03-28T15:07:07.000Z","updated_at":"2025-04-08T09:35:45.000Z","dependencies_parsed_at":"2024-09-25T00:40:53.705Z","dependency_job_id":"f5af2f73-5bc3-4318-9de9-a273c8de042c","html_url":"https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc","commit_stats":{"total_commits":748,"total_committers":52,"mean_commits":"14.384615384615385","dds":0.6377005347593583,"last_synced_commit":"174e707c0f64d9fe6eb699612be35fa214cafc3f"},"previous_names":[],"tags_count":38,"template":false,"template_full_name":null,"repository_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/backuppc%2Fbackuppc","tags_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/backuppc%2Fbackuppc/tags","releases_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/backuppc%2Fbackuppc/releases","manifests_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/backuppc%2Fbackuppc/manifests","owner_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners/backuppc","download_url":"https://codeload.github.com/backuppc/backuppc/tar.gz/refs/heads/master","host":{"name":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com","kind":"github","repositories_count":254355334,"owners_count":22057354,"icon_url":"https://github.com/github.png","version":null,"created_at":"2022-05-30T11:31:42.601Z","updated_at":"2022-07-04T15:15:14.044Z","host_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub","repositories_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories","repository_names_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repository_names","owners_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners"}},"keywords":[],"created_at":"2024-08-01T12:01:41.227Z","updated_at":"2025-05-15T14:04:24.180Z","avatar_url":"https://github.com/backuppc.png","language":"Perl","funding_links":[],"categories":["HarmonyOS","Install from Source","Perl","Ports and Programs","Backup"],"sub_categories":["Windows Manager","Backups","Data Backup and Recovery"],"readme":"[![BackupPC](images/logo320.png)](https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/)\n\nBackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk.\n\n## Quick Start\n\nThe latest version of BackupPC can be fetched from:\n\n* [github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases](https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases)\n\nYou'll need to install the perl module BackupPC::XS, available from:\n\n* [github.com/backuppc/backuppc-xs/releases](https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc-xs/releases)\n\nand the server-side rsync from:\n\n* [github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc/releases](https://github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc/releases)\n\n\nIf you will use SMB for WinXX clients, you will need smbclient and\nnmblookup from the Samba distribution.\n\nTo install BackupPC run these commands as root:\n\n    tar zxf BackupPC-__VERSION__.tar.gz\n    cd BackupPC-__VERSION__\n    perl configure.pl\n\nThis will automatically determine some system information and prompt you\nfor install paths. Do `perldoc configure.pl` to see the various options\nthat configure.pl provides.\n\n\n\n## Introduction\n\nBackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing\nup Linux, WinXX, and MacOS PCs and laptops to a server's disk.\nBackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.\n\nGiven the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now\npractical and cost effective to backup a large number of machines onto\na server's local disk or network storage. This is what BackupPC does.\nFor some sites, this might be the complete backup solution. For other\nsites, additional permanent archives could be created by periodically\nbacking up the server to tape. A variety of Open Source systems are\navailable for doing backup to tape.\n\nBackupPC is written in Perl and extracts backup data via SMB (using Samba),\nrsync, or tar over ssh/rsh/nfs. It is robust, reliable, well documented\nand freely available as Open Source on [GitHub](https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/).\n\n\n\n## Features\n\n- A clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk IO. Identical\n  files across multiple backups of the same or different PCs are stored\n  only once resulting in substantial savings in disk storage.\n\n- One example of disk use: 95 laptops with each full backup averaging\n  3.6GB each, and each incremental averaging about 0.3GB. Storing\n  three weekly full backups and six incremental backups per laptop\n  is around 1200GB of raw data, but because of pooling and compression\n  only 150GB is needed.\n\n- No client-side software is needed. The standard smb protocol is used\n  to extract backup data on WinXX clients. On *nix clients, either rsync\n  or tar over ssh/rsh/nfs is used to backup the data. Various alternatives\n  are possible: rsync can also be used with WinXX by running rsyncd/cygwin.\n  Similarly, smb could be used to backup *nix file systems if they are\n  exported as smb shares.\n\n- A powerful http/cgi user interface allows administrators to view log\n  files, configuration, current status and allows users to initiate and\n  cancel backups and browse and restore files from backups.\n\n- Flexible restore options. Single files can be downloaded from\n  any backup directly from the CGI interface. Zip or Tar archives\n  for selected files or directories from any backup can also be\n  downloaded from the CGI interface. Finally, direct restore to\n  the client machine (using SMB, rsync or tar) for selected files\n  or directories is also supported from the CGI interface.\n\n- Supports mobile environments where laptops are only intermittently\n  connected to the network and have dynamic IP addresses (DHCP).\n\n- Flexible configuration parameters allow multiple backups to be performed\n  in parallel, specification of which shares to backup, which directories\n  to backup or not backup, various schedules for full and incremental\n  backups, schedules for email reminders to users and so on. Configuration\n  parameters can be set system-wide or also on a per-PC basis.\n\n- Users are sent periodic email reminders if their PC has not\n  recently been backed up. Email content, timing and policies\n  are configurable.\n\n- Tested on Linux and Solaris hosts, and Linux, Win95, Win98, Win2000\n  and WinXP clients.\n\n- Detailed documentation.\n\n- Open Source hosted by GitHub and freely available under GPL.\n\n\n## Packaging Help Needed\n\nBackupPC 4.x doesn't have packages available for all the main linux distros.\nIf you are willing to create and support packaging BackupPC 4.x for your\nfavorite linux distro, please step up and help!  Feel free to create a git\nissue indicating your interest.\n\n## Resources\n\nComplete documentation is available in this release in doc/BackupPC.pod\nor doc/BackupPC.html. You can read doc/BackupPC.pod with perldoc and\ndoc/BackupPC.html with any browser. You can also see the documentation\nand general information at:\n\n* [backuppc.github.io/backuppc](https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc)\n\nThe source code is available on Github at:\n\n* [github.com/backuppc](https://github.com/backuppc)\n\nand releases are available on github:\n\n* [github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases](https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases)\n* [github.com/backuppc/backuppc-xs/releases](https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc-xs/releases)\n* [github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc/releases](https://github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc/releases)\n\nor SourceForge:\n\n* [sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/files](https://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/files)\n\nYou are encouraged to subscribe to any of the mail lists available\non sourceforge.net:\n\n* [lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-announce](http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-announce)\n* [lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users](http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users)\n* [lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel](http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel)\n\nThe backuppc-announce list is moderated and is used only for\nimportant announcements (eg: new versions). It is low traffic.\nYou only need to subscribe to one of users and announce: backuppc-users\nalso receives any messages on backuppc-announce.\n\nThe backuppc-devel list is only for developers who are working on BackupPC.\nDo not post questions or support requests there. But detailed technical\ndiscussions should happen on this list.\n\nTo post a message to the backuppc-users list, send an email to\n\n* backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net\n\nDo not send subscription requests to this address!\n\n\n\n## Copyright\n\nCopyright (C) 2001-2020 Craig Barratt. All rights reserved.\n\nThis program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.\n\nSee the LICENSE file.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbackuppc%2Fbackuppc","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbackuppc%2Fbackuppc","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbackuppc%2Fbackuppc/lists"}