bup mit Homebrew, apt, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• bup

Projektgeschichte

Avery Pennarun announced bup 0.01 on January 4, 2010 after writing it during a Christmas break. The original announcement and the current README emphasize the same core design: split input with an rsync-like rolling checksum, store data in Git packfiles, write packfiles directly for performance, and allow data to be addressed in a way Git tooling can still understand.

The project later moved under the bup GitHub organization and retained its own documentation site, man pages, release notes, and mailing-list workflow. Its README still warns that backups are a serious domain while documenting broad Unix-like support, optional par2 redundancy, FUSE access, remote backup over SSH, and Python/C implementation details.

Adoptionsgeschichte

bup was noticed quickly in the Unix backup community because it combined Git's content-addressed storage ideas with backup-oriented behavior that plain Git does not handle well. The input metadata records packaging across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, Arch, and openSUSE, which reflects its long-running availability in both source-based and distribution package ecosystems.

Wie es verwendet wird

Common usage follows a simple CLI flow: initialize a bup repository, index paths, save backups, then restore or browse snapshots. bup is especially associated with large mutable files because chunking lets later backups reuse most existing data even when the file as a whole has changed.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

bup matters to package nerds because it is a durable example of borrowing a version-control storage primitive for system administration. It also represents an era when Git's object model inspired backup, archival, and deduplicating-storage tools, before later encrypted deduplicating backup tools such as Attic, Borg, Restic, and Bupstash became common comparisons.

Zeitleiste

• 2010-01-04: bup 0.01 announced by Avery Pennarun.
• 2012: The current bup/bup GitHub repository was created under the bup organization.
• 2015: The bup.github.io site described bup as an efficient backup system based on Git packfiles.
• 2026: The project remains active with documented 0.33.x releases.

Related projects

• bup is directly related to Git, rsync-style rolling checksums, par2 recovery data, and FUSE mounting. In backup-tool discussions it is commonly compared with rdiff-backup, Duplicity, Borg, Restic, and Bupstash.

Quellen

• https://apenwarr.ca/log/20100104
• https://bup.github.io/
• https://bup.github.io/man.html
• https://github.com/bup/bup
• source_facts.package-manager