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 What: Baccus
 Where: http://www.magma.com.ni/repos/baccus/
 Description: Baccus - Trivial Use File Backup and Restore
        Snapshot a file system (directory) as often as you like
        and at any time retrieve any of the snapshots.
        Baccus uses content addressable storage on the local
        filesystem for filesystem archival.  For more info see:
        http://www.magma.com.ni/repos/baccus/README
        Currently at version 0.1
        Note: this is pre-alpha development quality, if it breaks
        you have to keep the parts (tm).
 Updated: 05/2013
 Contact: See [LEG] and the website

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****Some History:****

March 2009: After some three or four months of working out the basics of Baccus I dare
to expose this baby to the rough world.  It still stands on very wiggly feed
so please take it up with care, and only when you know what you are doing.

I plan to use Baccus as a professional backup solution for a small webhosting
company as well as for the personal computers in my family environment, so it
surely will evolve over time.  This release shall encourage other developers
to take a look and try it out, and if it pleases to contribute bug reports,
patches, ideas, or nice comments.

Baccus is hosted in a [http://darcs.net/ %|%darcs%|%] repository at:
http://www.magma.com.ni/repos/, together with bits and pieces required to
install and use it.

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May 2013: tried other things and got back to Baccus again. Since installation
was anything less then smooth, fixed some minor problems. urta persistent
parameter store using [Tie] with `file` data source does not work out, because
the file grows Megas with one large run.  So decided to implement
[Sqlite3 Data Source for Tie].  Another critical bug: files with non-ASCII
characters in their name do not get backed up - going to fix that in the
next days.


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