Bup

References

• Bup on GitHub
• Bup website

Bup reviews:

• Bup - towards the perfect backup.

Also details how to setup snapshot on Windows using vscsc to make consistent backups.

• Git-based backup with bup

Someone commented that par2 should be replaced by zfec.

Install on Lacie-Cloudbox

git clone https://github.com/bup/bup
ipkg install attr libacl
ipkg install python27 py27-tornado py27-pip
which python
which python2
# optware python only available as "python2", and pip as "pip2.7"
pip2.7 install fuse
pip2.7 install xattr libacl
# error: /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages (in --site-dirs) is not on sys.path
export PYTHONPATH=/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages
# see https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=73608

pip2.7 install pyxattr pylibacl       # Do NOT install xattr

export PYTHON=/opt/bin/python2        # To avoid using /usr/bin/python, see bup doc.
make
make test

Houston, we have a problem. We can reproduce as follows:

cat libintel.py
# import posix1e;           # From package pylibacl
python libintel.py