201|195|7||1674306283|7|1674495521|0|If you are one of those cautious people who like us understand the importance of carrying out backups whenever possible, welcome to the club, you are one of us, and for being one of us we want to share with you valuable information about one of the most useful tools to carry out this purpose, this tool is called Bup, and in this section we want to give you an objective opinion on some of the features that we consider most relevant about this tool, to continue with this content first let us define what is Bup.

What is Bup?

Bup is an open source program, which is used to carry out backups, the simplicity of its name is due to the fact that its acronym is the abbreviation of "Backup", but do not be fooled by the tiny name it has, since But is one of the coolest tools in the market.

Bup's contributions to the community

From a technical point of view, Bup has some advantages over other backup programs, so in order to give you an objective opinion about this tool and not make our opinion too long, we will share with you the two most interesting features we have found in this program.

- It uses a continuous checksum algorithm, something quite similar to rsync, which is responsible for splitting large files into fragments, this results in backup copies of disk images, databases and virtual machine (VM) XML files incrementally, although the program stores them in a single file, which makes this file become a rather large file, but it is not necessary to use tons of disk space for several versions.

- Bup uses the package file format of git (open source version control system) this allows you to access the stored data even if the user interface of Bup is not quite nice.

As you can see Bup, is a tool that has a lot to tell, in this opportunity we wanted to give a summarized opinion about it, mostly to make it known, but if you want to know much more about the features that make it such a great tool, just go to their website and see for yourself all the advantages they offer to the community.