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An open source tool by Watchman Monitoring, Inc.<br />
http://backupminder.org<br />

### What does BackupMinder do for me?
Backup Minder is a utility to help manage the many backup files left by repetitive backup processes.

### What are some examples of these "repetitive backup proceses", and why are they a problem?
*Each time Quickbooks is quit, a backup is created, sometimes leaving 3-4 backups per day.<br />
*LightSpeed Retail's server will create a backup every day, potentially filling the entire drive.<br />
*FileMaker Pro Server can rotate daily backups, but have no long term history.<br />
*An Excel file may be updated in place, and not have a backup placed elsewhere.<br />


### How does BackupMinder help in these cases?
*BackupMinder can be configured to keep only a specified number of backups, perhaps the last 60 daily backups.<br />
*BackupMinder can move the last backup of the month to a specified Archive Folder, resulting in 12 good backups per year.<br />
*BackupMinder can keep only the latest copy of a file version in a specified folder, allowing an archival tool to see only one backup.<br />
*BackupMinder can tell if a backup has not been added within a designated number of days. <br />

### What are BackupMinder's components?

/Applications/BackupMinderUI.app A GUI to create and set launchd plists<br />
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Each time a file is placed the monitored folder, the OS will trigger BackupMinder as declared in the plist.


### To Do List

Enhance this readme for futher clarity.<br />
Incorporate changes to this readme into the GUI app<br />
Update the readability of the BackupMinderUI<br />
Find a neat icon for the project. <br />



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