HARDLINKED-BACKUP(1)

NAME
hardlinked-backup - manual page for hardlinked-backup 2.2.4

SYNOPSIS
hardlinked-backup /tmp/pidFile /path/to/destination/ user@source:path [proxy_user@ssh_host]

DESCRIPTION
Backup files from remote with rsync, possibly via SSH-tunnel.

With no arguments, information is expected to be in array $backups in /etc/backup.conf with name of executable (e.g. a symlink) as key. With one argument, information is expected to be in array ${backups[$1]} in /etc/backup.conf.

OPTIONS

/tmp/pidFile
    location of file to store PID in

/path/to/destination
    location to store backups in

user@source:path
    remote data to back up

proxy_user@ssh_host
    ssh login to proxy node (optional)

--help
    display this help and exit

--version
    display version and exit

CONFIG
The configfile /etc/backup.conf is a bash script, which defines the following variables:

excludes
    array of paths to exclude from backup

backups
    array with command line arguments for predefined backups for backup

maxWait
    maximum time to wait for destination directories to appear in last-backups and backup-statistics [seconds]

outdatedLimit
    time before backups are considered outdated by last-backups [seconds]

recognSubdirRegex
    regular expression of subdirectories which should be appended to the parent directory in the report by last-backups

cacheDir
    directory to store valuable information generated by backup-statistics in

FILES
/etc/backup.conf

AUTHOR
Erich Eckner <opensource at eckner dot net>.

SEE ALSO
backup-statistics(1), last-backups(1), remove-old-backups(1)