Tagged backups
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SmartCopy: copying files without copying history
Years of backups of backups left me with the same folders copied into five different places. SmartCopy compares by content, skips what's already there, and writes down every decision.
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Transporter Room: giving a backup tool a bridge console
A command-line backup engine deserves a control panel with some personality. Transporter Room is an Avalonia desktop app with an amber-and-cyan status deck, and it has a web sibling for the server closet.
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PatternBuffer.NET: beam up the bytes that matter
I wrote a backup engine from scratch: content-defined chunking, global deduplication, zstd packs, optional AES-256-GCM, and SSH remotes. It's Borg-inspired, not Borg-compatible, and very much Star Trek.
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