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DATTOBD: Block-Level Snapshots/Backups For Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 18 August 2015 at 12:03 AM EDT. 2 Comments

The Dattobd driver was open-sourced earlier this month by Datto Inc. The Datto Block Driver is for taking block-level snapshots and incremental backups.

The Datto block driver was published earlier this month under the GNU GPLv2 license. This driver is designed just for taking snapshots and incremental backups at the block level. Datto Inc is a data protection/backup company.

If you're interested in learning more about the open-source Dattobd, visit its GitHub page. Thanks to our summer intern for discovering this new open-source project that I missed seeing earlier this month.

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