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Project Intend

ancha is a backup and restore application storing backups in directories of the (local) file system. These may include USB hard disks and network shares. ancha is not intended to store backups on tapes or other raw devices.

Project Name

The project is named after the star Ancha in the constellation Aquarius.

Project Status

Project ancha is currently in the alpha phase. Release are available from Sourceforge.

Available Features

The following new features are new in release 0.6.

• Sub entries can be specified on the command line
• Initial implementation of the list operation
• Meaningful return codes
• Comprehensive user documentation
• Process all entries in the archive or given directory, if no entries are specified on the command line
• Installation script

The following new features are new in release 0.5.

• Initial support for large files (>2GB). Large files ase stored in the archive undevided
• Support for character & block devices
• Non privileged users can restore GID's if they are member of the group
• As default the access time is ignored when deciding, if an entry has been modified since the last backup
• Improved test concept

The following new features are new in release 0.4.

• Improved error handling regarding corrupt index.xml files
• File names containing special characters (e.g. '<') are supported
• Support for fifos & sockets added
• Support for set-uid, set-gid and sticky flags added
• Access and modification time are handled with nanosecond resolution

The following new features are new in release 0.3.

• Improved command line interface
• Backup and restore for symbolic links
• New test tool dirlist supports the verification of backups
• Restore UID & GID (if restore is done by root)
• Readable time stamps in index.xml
• Backup and restore of the access time

The following new feature is new in release 0.2.

• Incremental backups

The following features are available in release 0.1.

• Basic command line interface
• Full backups
• Restore
• Support for regular files and directories

Planned Features

This is a rough list of fatures planned for the next release(s).

• Listing archive content
• Restoring old archive revisions
• Reporting statistics on archive content
• Meaningful return codes>
• Support for splitting large files
• Comprehensive user documentation
• API interface
• Improved build and install

For known limitations read the README file.

© 2012, Henning Seemann

last published: March 6th, 2012