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Such filesystems don't support incremental backups using hardlinks, which most tools use with rsync. Fatbackup is a pure perl solution. Each time it is executed it saves new or changed files into a new subdirectory. It keeps track of files using a database. The restore function takes this into account and collects files of the various backup subdirectories in order to restore a snapshot. Therefore it works as it had hardlinks.\n\n# Install\n\n    cp fatbackup $HOME/bin\n\n\n# Usage\n\n    usage: fatbackup [-hvsidnVztrl]\n    \n    Backup Options:\n     --include -i \u003cdir\u003e    Directories to backup, may occur multiple times.\n     --exclude -e \u003cregex\u003e  Directory or file to ignore, may occur multiple times.\n     --dst -d \u003cdir\u003e        Target directory where to save backups.\n     --zip -z              Create zip archives instead of copying.\n    \n    Restore Options:\n     --restore -r \u003cts\u003e     Restore from backup made on timestamp \u003cts\u003e.\n     --target -t \u003cdir\u003e     Directory where to restore to, default origin.\n    \n    Lookup Options:\n     --list -l [\u003cts\u003e]      If no timestamp \u003cts\u003e given, list snapshots (timestamps)\n                           otherwise list files backed up on \u003cts\u003e. if -v\n                           is set, show all files of snapshot \u003cts\u003e. Requires -d.\n    \n    General Options:\n     --nodie -n            Don't exit on errors\n     --help -h -?          Print help\n     --version -V          Print version\n     --verbose -v          Be verbose during operations\n     --debug               Print debugging\n    \n    Notes:\n     The destination directory --dst may contain format characters (see: man strftime).\n     E.g. if executed daily with -d /backups/%m then 12 full backups will be made on\n     the first of each month differential backups on the other days.\n\n# Examples\n\n## make a backup\n\n    fatbackup -d /media/fritz.box/Intenso/desktop-%m -i $HOME/Desktop -e \"\\.(git|svn)\" -e \"(tmp|cache)\" -n\n\nHere we're saving to a cifs-mounted usb-disk with a fat32 filesystem attached to a\nfritzbox. We use %m in the backup directory, so we will have a new full backup on each new\nmonth and incremental backups on the other days. We don't save temporary and repository\nstuff.\n\n## see what's there\n\n    fatbackup -d /media/fritz.box/Intenso/desktop-%m -l\n\nThis shows a list of what snapshots are in this backup directory. You may also peak directly into\na snapshot like this:\n\n    fatbackup -d /media/fritz.box/Intenso/desktop-%m -l 2015-11-07-13.10\n\n## restore a snapshot\n\n   fatbackup -d /media/fritz.box/Intenso/desktop-%m -r 2015-11-07-13.10\n\nHere we restore the specified snapshot back to the original source directory.\n\n## check for errors\n\nThe backup directory contains a logfile where you can see what happened.\n\nIf you see lots of errors with \"bad file descriptor\" and the like and your source\nfilenames contain unprintable characters or :: which are not allowed on a fat(323)\nfilesystem, consider using zipfiles (option -z)\n\n# Getting help\n\nAlthough I'm happy to hear from fatbackup users in private email,\nthat's the best way for me to forget to do something.\n\nIn order to report a bug, unexpected behavior, feature requests\nor to submit a patch, please open an issue on github:\nhttps://github.com/TLINDEN/fatbackup/issues.\n\n# Copyright and license\n\nThis software is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 3.\n\n# Authors\n\nT.v.Dein \u003ctom AT vondein DOT org\u003e\n\n# Project homepage\n\nhttps://github.com/TLINDEN/fatbackup\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ftlinden%2Ffatbackup","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Ftlinden%2Ffatbackup","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ftlinden%2Ffatbackup/lists"}