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h1. scduply - useful interface for duplicity

[[OVERVIEW]] | [[INSTALL]] | [[SETUP]] | [[USAGE]]
[[ОБЗОР]] | [[УСТАНОВКА]] | [[НАСТРОЙКА]] | [[ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ]]

> *scduply* - is a backup system designed for easy and cost-effective backup of the data to any type of storage via Internet, from a simple ftp to Amazon S3-class services.
>
> Due to it's properties, scduply is ideal for VPS backup copy on Linux (for example - sites) and on Windows (for example - a terminal server, including a file database, and Outlook folders).

h2. KEY FEATURES

* *Deduplication*
The incremental backup sents only different pieces of the file. Convenient for big logs and databases.

* *Encryption on client-side*
Before sending, all data is encrypted by GPG program. Therefore, even if the third party has the access to the location,
it can't acquire the data without the private key.

* *Easy Windows installation*
Windows installer does everything itself. More over, the Windows version contains patches for fast and stable operation.

* *VSS Support for MS Windows*
Supporting Snapshots, allowing to copy databases, Outlook pst-files and changing other objects.

h2. SCDUPLY - IS FREE SOFTWARE

The software consist of three components licensed under GPL:

* *"scduply":https://github.com/skycover/scduply* - the program itself
* *"scdw":https://github.com/skycover/scdw* - the web-interface to control scduply
* *"scwin":https://github.com/skycover/scwin* - the installer for scduply и scdw for Windows with VSS option

The software is developed by "SkyCover Company":http://www.skycover.ru. It is initally based on source of "duply":http://duply.net/ and using [[Duplicity|Duplicity]] as backup engine.
This is the backup control tool via configuration files and simple commands, which simplifies significantly the tuning of backup jobs
and allowing to manage several jobs, each for different directory or subsystem.



h2. VISUALIZATION SkyCover Duply (scduply)

The tool for managing dedicated server backups via the configuration files and simple commands.

* Permits to define the new backup job in few seconds.
* User friendly, clear syntax of config files.
* Able to execute and check pre- and post-job scripts.
* Gives useful commands for backup and restore.
* Saves the backup logs, create and mail HTML reports.

The
example of mailed HTML report. It cames with all the raw logs attached.

!scduply-report.png! !scduply-report1.png!

[[Report explanation|REPORTING]]

The reports are mailed
*SkyCover Duply* is useful for command-line usage and you can control, wether you receive all reports, or only with errors or warnings.

also is used as the backend for [[SkyCover_Duply_Web_en|SkyCover Duply Web (SCDW)]] – the web interface SCDW built on Django give ability for useful tuning of configuring the backup jobs (it includes filesystem browser jobs.

Both scduply
and intuitive interface SCDW are free and licensed under GPL.

The sources and the manuals

Installation Instructions

Usage Guide

The project’s code: http://github.com/skycover/scduply

The request tracker: https://redmine.skycover.ru/projects/scduply-backup

The quick comments page

The relation
to control the duply project

scduply is based on the source code
of exclusions). duply, but is advanced to be more friendly:

!scdw-list1.png!

h2. TECHNICAL DETAILS

* Global config file for common settings for all jobs;
* Duplicity options are "hidden" behind the user
User friendly config variables syntax with defaults; named variables.
* Additional global configuration file.
*
Automatic addition of the job’s name to the globally configured TARGET_URL; TARGET_URL.
* Infrastructure to save per-job logs and reports.
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The command for batch execution of all defined jobs; jobs.
* ability to destignate the week day of FULL backup for each job;
* Infrastructure to save per-job logs and reports;
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Reporting via e-mail with HTML report and raw logs attached.

*scduply* is not backward compatible with "duply":http://duply.net/.

*scduply* is developed for the *SkyCover* Company internal needs, so it will always be the separate project, to be able implement any desired new features.

Nevertheless, we will be glad to submit any parts of our code to the "duply":http://duply.net/.