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# Author   : Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org>
# Project  : Cedar Backup, release 2
# Revision : $Id: README 669 2005-03-07 05:34:00Z 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.  Cedar Backup also includes
extensions that understand how to back up MySQL databases and Subversion
repositories, and it can be easily extended to support other data sources,
as well.

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, Cedar Backup 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.

