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What is Attic?
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-Attic is a deduplicating backup program. The main goal of attic is to provide
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+Attic is a deduplicating backup program. The main goal of Attic is to provide
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an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication
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-technique used makes Attic suitable for daily backups since only actual changes
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+technique used makes Attic suitable for daily backups since only changes
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are stored.
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Easy to use
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-Initialze backup repository and create a backup archive::
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+Initialize backup repository and create a backup archive::
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$ attic init /usbdrive/my-backup.attic
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$ attic create -v /usbdrive/my-backup.attic::documents ~/Documents
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and authenticity is verified using HMAC-SHA256.
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Off-site backups
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- attic can store data on any remote host accessible over SSH as long as
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- attic is installed.
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+ Attic can store data on any remote host accessible over SSH. This is
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+ most efficient if Attic is also installed on the remote host.
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Backups mountable as filesystems
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Backup archives are mountable as userspace filesystems for easy backup
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What do I need?
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-Attic requires Python 3.2 or above to work. Besides Python attic also requires
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+Attic requires Python 3.2 or above to work. Besides Python, Attic also requires
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msgpack-python and sufficiently recent OpenSSL (>= 1.0.0).
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+In order to mount archives as filesystems, llfuse is required.
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How do I install it?
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Where are the docs?
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-Go to https://pythonhosted.org/Attic/ for a prebuilt version of the docs. You
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-can also build them yourself form the docs folder.
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+Go to https://pythonhosted.org/Attic/ for a prebuilt version of the documentation.
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+You can also build it yourself from the docs folder.
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Where are the tests?
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