Cool backup idea... bup

[Christopher Browne]

http://github.com/apenwarr/bup

Coolest thing I've seen lately...  bup...  A backup system that uses
the Git packfile format for storage.

The way nifty part:  It shares data between incremental backups, and
even between hosts.  If a particular file "chunk" occurs in several
backups, it only needs to be stored once.

It's still early in its development, so there is, for instance, not
yet a very good "bup restore."

At any rate, this is a clearly interesting "abuse of the underlying
Git components."

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