baco (backup copy) is a Mono / .NET program for easy backing up your files to a
volume which supports hard links (ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, NTFS, ...).
It runs on Unix/Linux and Windows (with Mono / .NET 4.5).
Every run of baco creates a snapshot of all your files in a new folder named by
current UTC date and time. If there are unchanged files (compared by content),
they will not need new hard disk space. Rather baco generates hard links
(hard link: two or more files on the same volume share their data bytes and
attributes).
Additional to the backup folder baco creates a compressed checksum file
(*.sha256.gz) for each single backup. Via those checksums baco can find and
link identical files. Those checksum files can also be used to verify integrity
of all backup files.
To configure a set of files and folders, which should be in the backup, you
create a simple XML file.
Run baco.exe ? or mono baco.exe ? for help.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
baco needs Mono or .NET Framework 4.5 (or higher version) to be installed.
For Windows see https://microsoft.com/net.
For Ubuntu the needed Mono components can be installed with following command:
sudo apt-get install mono-runtime libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil
https://github.com/udoliess/baco
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
see: LICENSE.txt
https://udoliess.github.io/baco/
Copyright (C) 2006...2019 Udo Liess