Starry is a simple, cross-platform, backup tool written in C#. Starry is used to quickly and easily backup your files and directories, automatically compressing them at your will using its configuration system.
Starry is written in C#, and it uses python for the setup. To install Starry, you will need to also install dotnet and python.
# Fedora
sudo dnf in dotnet-runtime-8.0 dotnet-sdk-8.0 python3
# Arch
sudo pacman -S dotnet-runtime dotnet-sdk python
# Ubuntu based distributions
sudo apt-get install dotnet-runtime-8.0 dotnet-sdk-8.0 python3Using choco
choco install python dotnetManually
Visit the following sites.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/windows?tabs=net80
https://www.python.org/downloads/
That's it! You are now ready to install Starry.
git clone https://github.com/its-Lyn/Starry
cd Starry/
python setup.py help
# After you've read the help. You can install it.
python setup.py build
# On Linux
sudo python setup.py install
# On Windows, you need to open powershell as administrator.
python setup.py install
starry helpgit clone https://github.com/its-Lyn/Starry
cd Starry/
dotnet publish -c Release -p:PublishSingleFile=true
cd Starry/bin/Release/net8.0/<your-os>-<your-arch>/publish
# On Linux
sudo mv ./Starry /usr/local/bin/starry
# On Windows, you need to open powershell as administrator
Move-Item .\Starry C:\Windows\system32
starry helpUninstalling Starry is as easy as running two commands!
# Using setup.py
sudo python setup.py uninstall
# You mustn't use sudo for this command if you're on linux.
python setup.py rconfBut you can always just do it manually.
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/starry
# Removing the configuration.
# If you have set XDG_CONFIG_HOME
rm -rf -I $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Starry
# Else
rm -rf -I ~/.config/Starry
Starry has a small config system. If you'd like to learn more, please take a look at the documentation
Starry also keeps track of your previous backups! You can see how it works here!
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