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- Welcome to Attic
- ================
- |project_name| is a deduplicating backup program written in Python.
- The main goal of |project_name| is to provide an efficient and secure way
- to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes |project_name|
- suitable for daily backups since only the changes are stored.
- Easy to use
- -----------
- Initialize a new backup :ref:`repository <repository_def>` and create your
- first backup :ref:`archive <archive_def>` in two lines::
- $ attic init /somewhere/my-repository.attic
- $ attic create /somewhere/my-repository.attic::Monday ~/Documents
- $ attic create --stats /somewhere/my-repository.attic::Tuesday ~/Documents
- Archive name: Tuesday
- Archive fingerprint: 387a5e3f9b0e792e91ce87134b0f4bfe17677d9248cb5337f3fbf3a8e157942a
- Start time: Tue Mar 25 12:00:10 2014
- End time: Tue Mar 25 12:00:10 2014
- Duration: 0.08 seconds
- Number of files: 358
- Original size Compressed size Deduplicated size
- This archive: 57.16 MB 46.78 MB 151.67 kB
- All archives: 114.02 MB 93.46 MB 44.81 MB
- See the :ref:`quickstart` chapter for a more detailed example.
- Easy installation
- -----------------
- You can use pip to install |project_name| quickly and easily::
- $ pip install attic
- |project_name| is also part of the Debian_, Ubuntu_, `Arch Linux`_ and Slackware_
- distributions of GNU/Linux.
- Need more help with installing? See :ref:`installation`.
- User's Guide
- ============
- .. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 2
- foreword
- installation
- quickstart
- usage
- faq
- internals
- Getting help
- ============
- If you've found a bug or have a concrete feature request, you can add your bug
- report or feature request directly to the project's `issue tracker`_. For more
- general questions or discussions, a post to the mailing list is preferred.
- Mailing list
- ------------
- There is a mailing list for Attic on librelist_ that you can use for feature
- requests and general discussions about Attic. A mailing list archive is
- available `here <http://librelist.com/browser/attic/>`_.
- To subscribe to the list, send an email to attic@librelist.com and reply
- to the confirmation mail. Likewise, to unsubscribe, send an email to
- attic-unsubscribe@librelist.com and reply to the confirmation mail.
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