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# duplicacy-beta
# Duplicacy: A new generation cloud backup tool based on Lock-Free Deduplication
Duplicacy works with major cloud storage providers and at the same time offers all essential features of a modern backup tool:
* Incremental backup: only back up what has been changed
* Full snapshot : even if each backup is incremental, it must appear to be a full snapshot independent of others
* Deduplication: identical files must be stored as one copy (file-level deduplication), and identical parts from different files must be stored as one copy (block-level deduplication)
* Encryption: encrypt not only file contents but also file paths, sizes, times, etc.
* Deletion: every backup can be deleted independently without affecting others
* Concurrency: multiple clients can back up to the same storage at the same time
The key idea behind Duplicacy is a technique called **Lock-Free Deduplication**. There are three elements of lock-free deduplication:
*Use variable-size chunking algorithm to split files into chunks
*Store each chunk in the storage using a file name derived from its hash, and rely on the file system API to manage chunks without using a centralized indexing database
*A *two-step fossil collection* algorithm to remove chunks that become unreferenced after a backup is deleted
Getting Started