diff --git a/app-backup/ccollect/Manifest b/app-backup/ccollect/Manifest
index 5365f749e4507..5ea0f27b9a0e1 100644
--- a/app-backup/ccollect/Manifest
+++ b/app-backup/ccollect/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST ccollect-0.8.tar.bz2 60376 BLAKE2B e3580aa6d1438b106c372e5b4abc77b9e19a8e057b93cfbd5882b3e9a899d5fa02c31c030c933c6e3e254687423cc51d0d86787365d40e4f5635aab3aa6dd954 SHA512 dc4b2a8687c636938154f8a4a4048c3f0ef13f6d6e3f6e66d8dcc8f544f3a390a98a8dbfb3ba2ba9019decbec5d628f07461dd3f803e14b2203972936ebf96f3
+DIST ccollect-2.10.tar.bz2 70314 BLAKE2B e0ce7a18cc79c7d3920958cbca7756b817a11ce88fbe68917a1ec672cb4b9616b0cc76bc4568164967d574cb30330afaf5fa5b5c50cae4cba07dbd13b2550425 SHA512 da619b88a4230108f0f5a16b2e30b0570684574ba814e87bb123d2d9650bc1bb1f85d8d34afc0c84fe03bcca3b104b98cab6f6b2e4134bacdfae748bbd7b90dd
diff --git a/app-backup/ccollect/ccollect-2.10.ebuild b/app-backup/ccollect/ccollect-2.10.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d19eb7919fbf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-backup/ccollect/ccollect-2.10.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit prefix
+
+DESCRIPTION="Pseudo incremental backup with different exclude lists using hardlinks and rsync"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ccollect/"
+SRC_URI="https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/${PN}/download/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="doc examples"
+# tests need ssh-access
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+RDEPEND="net-misc/rsync"
+BDEPEND="
+	doc? (
+		>=app-text/asciidoc-8.1.0
+		app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets
+		app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.2
+		dev-libs/libxslt
+	)
+"
+
+src_compile() {
+	use doc && emake XSL="${BROOT}"/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/html/docbook.xsl documentation
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dodir /usr/bin
+
+	# Makefile tries to install things to a /usr/local prefix and then
+	# symlink some parts in /usr to it. Divert that to a trash directory.
+	mkdir "${T}"/trash || die
+
+	emake -j1 \
+		prefix="${ED}" \
+		path_dir="${T}"/trash \
+		mandest="${ED}"/usr/share/man/man1 \
+		manlink="${T}"/trash \
+		install
+
+	hprefixify "${ED}"/bin/ccollect
+
+	# These aren't installed by the Makefile, unfortunately.
+	local i
+	for i in add_source analyse_logs archive_config check_config \
+	delete_source list_intervals logwrapper stats; do
+		hprefixify tools/ccollect_${i}
+		dobin tools/ccollect_${i}
+	done
+
+	insinto /usr/share/${PN}/tools
+	hprefixify tools/config-pre* tools/{old/gnu-du-backup-size-compare,report_success}
+	doins tools/config-pre* tools/{old/gnu-du-backup-size-compare,report_success}
+
+	pushd doc/changes >/dev/null || die
+	for i in * ; do
+		newdoc ${i} NEWS-${i}
+	done
+	popd >/dev/null || die
+
+	if use doc; then
+		doman doc/man/*.1
+
+		find doc/ \( -iname '*.1' -o -iname '*.text' \) -delete || die
+		HTML_DOCS=( doc/{*.htm{,l},man} )
+	fi
+	einstalldocs
+
+	if use examples ; then
+		docinto examples
+		dodoc -r conf/.
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	ewarn "If you're upgrading from 0.6.x or less, you'll have to"
+	ewarn "upgrade your existing configuration as follows:"
+	ewarn "1. Make the scripts in ${EROOT}/usr/share/ccollect/scripts executable"
+	ewarn "2. Run all config-pre-\$VER-to-\$VER.sh in ${EROOT}/usr/share/ccollect/scripts"
+	ewarn "   ascending order, where \$VER is greater or equal than the version"
+	ewarn "   you upgraded from."
+	ewarn "Example:"
+	ewarn "  You upgraded from 0.5, thus you have to run:"
+	ewarn "  ${EROOT}/usr/share/ccollect/tools/config-pre-0.6-to-0.6.sh"
+	ewarn "  ${EROOT}/usr/share/ccollect/tools/config-pre-0.7-to-0.7.sh"
+
+	elog "Please note that many tools are now installed directly to ${EROOT}/usr/bin"
+	elog "as recommended by upstream."
+}