collective.recipe.backup is basically a port of ye olde instancemanager's backup functionality. That backup functionality was coded mostly by Reinout van Rees and Maurits van Rees, both from Zest software
Creating the buildout recipe was done by Reinout with some fixes by Maurits, who is now the main developer and maintainer.
The snapshotrestore script was added by Nejc Zupan (niteoweb).
The fullbackup script was added by Tom 'Spanky' Kapanka.
Archive blob backups feature added by Matej Cotman (niteoweb).
Work on collective.recipe.backup has been made possible by Ghent University, or UGent. See https://www.ugent.be. Ghent University is a top 100 university and one of the major universities in Belgium.