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Project Summary
Flashback is a backup application for MidnightBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS X. It runs as a daemon in the background and has a web interface for management. It allows you to create tarballs of existing directories or files on a schedule.
It has been written in C++ and started as a software engineering project at Eastern Michigan University. Byron Heads, Chris Tubbs, and Lucas Holt created flashback.
In a Nutshell, flashback...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a small development team
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2008
ending with its most recent commit 6 months ago
Quick Reference
https://github.com/laffer1/flash...
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
Permitted
Commercial Use
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Project Security
Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )
There are no reported vulnerabilities
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Vulnerability Exposure Index
Many reported vulnerabilities
Few reported vulnerabilities
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