Manent is an algorithmically strong backup and archival program. It features efficient backup to anything that looks like storage. Currently it supports plain filesystems ("directories"), FTP, and SFTP. Planned are Amazon S3, optical disks, and email (SMTP and IMAP). It can work (making progress towards finishing a backup) over a slow and unreliable network. It can offer online access to the contents of the backup. Backed up storage is completely encrypted. Backup is incremental, including changed parts of large files. Moved, renamed, and duplicate files will not require additional storage. Several computers can use the same storage for backup, automatically sharing data. Both very large and very small files are supported efficiently. Manent does not rely on timestamps of the remote system to detect changes.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
Some container files have been created with uppercase letters in container indices. See the manent homepage for instructions for dealing with it. The block cache was found to be too aggressive, causing excessive storage use in Manent's database. This version fixes that, but please visit the homepage for more info. There are more fixes to Unicode name handling under Linux (filenames that were not decodable under the current locale caused Manent to panic).
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09-02-2008
