• How it works
  • Installation process
  • Features and misfeatures
  • Specifying files to back up
  • Example use
  • Dependencies
  • Automated tests
  • About transferring repos
  • Scheduling backshift to run periodically
  • About file count estimates
  • About backshift progress reporting (or not reporting)
  • Chunk size summary for one backshift deployment
  • About the choice of underlying filesystem for your backshift repo
    Appendix
    1. A rebuttal to G. P. E. Keeling's backup program performance testing article
    2. Keeping your backups from pounding your systems too hard (external link)