Cronopete – A Linux clone of Time Machine, Hacker News

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Cronopete is a Linux clone of Time Machine, the backup utility for Mac from Apple. It aims to mimic it as closely as possible.

    

As a backup utility, it makes periodically a copy of all the user files in a separate hard disk, thus allowing to recover them in case of accidentally     deleting a file, or if the main hard disk gets damaged. Each copy is stored separately (one copy per hour is kept for the last 26 hours, one dairy copy for the     last days, and one weekly copy for the rest), which means that the user can choose which copy to restore. Files that do not change between backups     are stored as hard links, and thus each new copy uses much less disk space than a true full copy. Internally, it uses RSync to do all the backup work.

The name comes from anacronopete (“who flies through time”), which is a time machine featured in the novel from Enrique Gaspar y Rimbaud, and published in (eight years before than HG Wells’ Time Machine

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