A minimal application for doing backups.
- No propriety format, the backups are saved in a normal compressed archive.
- Modern, state-of-the-art compression using zstd.
- Optional multithreading for increased performance.
- Incremental backups (using metadata from the files).
- Selective restores (only deleted files, only selected files, or all files).
- Merge old backups to save sapace.
- Command line interface (declare includes, excludes, and regex-filters).
- Configurations can be saved for easy reuse (e.g. for incremental backups).
- Graphical user interface.
Just run the program and select what to do (assuming it has been compiled without disabling the GUI).
For doing backups from command line run simple_backup direct [PARAMS]. To create a config file run simple_backup config <CONFIG> [PARAMS] and then simple_backup backup <CONFIG> to do a backup based on the config. Finally, to restore from a backup run simple_backup restore <PATH> [PARAMS]. More detailed instructions is available with the help parameter: simple_backup --help (also works for sub commands such as simple_backup restore --help).
Example:
cd /tmp
mkdir dir
touch test1.txt dir/test2.txt dir/test3.txt
simple_backup config config.yml --include test.txt dir --exclude dir/test2.txt --output .
simple_backup backup config.yml
rm test1.txt dir/test2.txt dir/test3.txt dir -r
simple_backup restore config.yml
[ -f test1.txt ] && echo "test1.txt was restored."
[ ! -f dir/test2.txt ] && echo "test2.txt was excluded."
[ -f dir/test3.txt ] && echo "test3.txt was restored."
rm backup_*.tar.zst config.yml test1.txt dir/test3.txt dir -r
Precompiled binaries can be found on the releases page.
Download this repo and run: cargo build --release. To compile a version without the GUI add: --no-default-features.