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Rationale
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The idea of md5backup is to do a quick and dirty backup of one
harddrive to another one.  The fine thing is, that it ensures data
integrity, because it stores the files under their md5 sum
respectively.

- There are no options.

- It does only backup files.

- It always recourses into directories.

- It stores the files in a relative path to the target.

- It does not gather metadata.

To gather metadata see odysseus from the scylla-charybdis suite, see
http://www.scylla-charybdis.com/

This program can be considered to be part of scylla-charybdis.  S+C is
thought to transfer data over a network mess.

md5backup is just an intermediate proof of concept code for the design
phase of an easy to use backup utility.  A tool, which will be
constructed the way *I* need a backup to run:

- It must run unattended even under the weirdest and worst
  environments, when you can expect things to fail to the highest
  degree just for no reasons at all (what I consider normal in this
  world).

- I don't want this tool to need manual intervention more often then 1
  times in a machines lifetime.

- Just run and forget, and be sure, it works until nothing else works
  any more.  And then you are able to *do* the restore, likewise
  easily.


-Tino
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