backup is a Linux backup system, designed to use in local backup or to sync with Google Drive.

• Install dependecies: git, rust, cargo, make.
• Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/juchiast/backup.git

• Configure the system:

./configure

• Compile:

make

• Edit data file of backup, the default data file located at data/file, view file.example for an example data file.
• Run: ./bk
• The program will output symbolic links to original files in 2 folders: output and inc. output contains all the files you want to backup, while inc contains files that was changed since the last snapshot. You can save the current snapshot by chdir into ./db commit the change:

git add file
git commit -m "some commit messages"

• Copy files to your backup device:

cp -RL output/file <your backup device>

Or copy only changed files:

cp -RL inc/file <your backup device>

The program supports multiple data files in ./data folder. To generate output for a specific data file, run:

./bk <your data file's name>

Note: Do not include ./data/ in your data file's name. The outputs will be placed in output/<your data file's name> and inc/<your data file's name>.

The sotfware is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for detail.

All contributions are welcomed. You can freely report bugs, request new features, change the code, push pull requests and more.