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archetype = "home"
title = "Backy"
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Backy is a tool for automating data backup and remote command execution. It can work over SSH, and provides completion and failure notifications, error reporting, and more.

Why the name Backy? Because I wanted an app for backups.

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## Features

- Allows easy configuration of executable commands

- Allows for commands to be run on many hosts over SSH

- Commands can be grouped in list to run in specific order

- Notifications on completion and failure

- Run in cron mode

- For any command, especially backup commands