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bKappa is a 2009 experiment in crude but transparent and cross-platform incremental backup. bKappa backups are simple directory trees and lists of files. They are easy to browse and examine and do not use symbolic or hard links. It is crude in the sense that bKappa only tracks files by name, not by content. This means it cannot detect that a file has been renamed and makes full copies of renamed and partially modified files. It generates standalone restore scripts for the POSIX shell and...

Simple python script for keeping a backup set with an arbitrary frequency and any number of surviving snapshots. Uses the rsync reference directory feature to minimize space by using file hard links. Launch it from /etc/crontab.