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# Author   : Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org>
# Project  : Cedar Backup, release 2
# Revision : $Id: README 527 2005-01-04 19:18:50Z pronovic $
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Cedar Backup is a Python package that supports secure backups of files
on local and remote hosts to CD-R or CD-RW media.  The package is
focused around weekly backups to a single disc, with the expectation
that the disc will be changed or overwritten at the beginning of each
week.  If your hardware is new enough, the script can write multisession
discs, allowing you to add to a disc in a daily fashion.   Directories
are backed up using tar and may be compressed using gzip or bzip2.

This is release 2 of the Cedar Backup package.  It represents a complete
rewrite of the original package.  The new code is cleaner, more compact,
more focused and also more "pythonic" in its approach (although the coding
style has arguably been influenced by my experiences with Java over the
last few years).  There is also now an extensive unit test suite, something
the first release always lacked.

For more information, see the Cedar Backup web site:

   http://cedar-solutions.com/software/cedar-backup

If you regularly use Cedar Backup, you might also like to join the
low-volume Cedar Backup mailing list:

   http://cedar-solutions.com/listarchives/

Use this mailing list to report bugs or for help using Cedar Backup.

