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: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Error handling problems have been fixed. Now if something goes wrong, Manent won't die with a cryptic error message, but will either print a more meaningful diagnostic or recover and continue. Printing information on an increment has been fixed, i.e. "Manent info [backup] increments" and "Manent info [backup] fs".
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12-16-2008
