It stands for Backup Over Network To Multiple Incremental Archives and is a network based backup with similar backup scheme as with tapes. Saves configurable numbers of last month, week, day, hour and minute backups. Each backup is a complete snapshot of the original directories. Only new/changed files takes up space when generating a new snapshot. Remote access is done over ssh.
This repository holds a fork of the original bontmia available at http://folk.uio.no/johnen/bontmia/
Bontmia was written by John Enok Vollestad and later modified by Marcel Pennewiss and Hyacinthe Cartiaux.
Bontmia may be used, modified and redistributed only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, found in the file COPYING in this distribution, or at http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html