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From: James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 09:57:48 +1000
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What are your favorite backup programs written, in whole or in part, in
> Python?
>
> What do you like about them?=C2=A0 Dislike about them?
>
> Are there any features you wish your backup program had, whether in Pytho=
n
> or not?

Recently I wrote a simple backup system for a client using
a mixture of Python and Bash using rsync, ssh and pptp.

(Not packaged well enough to show source though)

It works very well and does the job.

cheers
James

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