mbbut (mackenzie bowes' back up tool)

A command line interface for backing it up.

Features

• Fast file-by-file compression using ZStandard
• Incremental backups with BLAKE3 hash tracking
• Parallel processing for improved performance
• Configurable file and directory exclusions
• Resume interrupted backups
• Decompress backed-up files when needed

Installation

From source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mackenziebowes/mbbut.git
cd mbbut

# Build and install
cargo build --release
cargo install --path .

From crates.io (coming soon, maybe)

cargo install mbbut

Usage

# Run a backup using a saved configuration
mbbut run --config mbbut_config.toml

# Set up a new backup configuration
mbbut setup --output mbbut_config.toml

# Resume a previously interrupted backup
mbbut resume --config mbbut_config.toml

# Decompress a file
mbbut decompress --source backup.txt.zst --destination original.txt

Configuration

Configuration is stored in TOML format with the following options:

source_path = "/path/to/backup"
destination_path = "/path/to/store/backup"
hash_file_path = "/path/to/hash/registry"
blacklist_dirs = ["node_modules", "target", "dist", ".git"]
blacklist_extensions = ["exe", "dll", "obj"]

Why?

Friendship ended with Windows, Linux is my new best friend.

• Local LLMs are finally good
• Windows is a joke for system management
• Therefore, I have to convert my Windows devices to Linux
• Something something NTFS
• I am storing a decade of memories to an SSD so I can flash my tower drives
• Maybe you want to do the same with the various laptops hanging around your place

Or, yknow, you just want to back stuff up.

Support

lol. lmao.

License

MIT