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Jérôme Quéré edited this page Aug 13, 2015 · 1 revision

Welcome to the indi-backup wiki!

Indi-backup is a modular backup system writen in bash with minimal dependencies.

Why bash ?

The application is entirely written in bash script and heavily use the system pipe mechanism. Backup data are generated in memory and directly piped to their destination whether it's an ssh server or the filesystem.
So yes you can backup a 100% full disk :-)

How it works

The application is based on 2 main concepts: task and storage.

A task describe what and how to backup data. You can create as many tasks as you want.
The application comes with several task type built in such as mysql, tarball, tarball-incremental.
For more information on task click here

A storage describe where the output of a task will be stored.
The application come with built-in storage type such as fs, ssh, swift
For more information on storage click here

[Quick-start](Quick Start)