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:
This release fixes restoration of increment descriptors from storage. The setup scripts have better compatibility with Windows (the problem was caused by Windows not being able to have both Manent and manent in the same directory; the file named "manent" was moved away into a subdirectory).
More...
12-21-2008
