X-Git-Url: https://git.llucax.com/software/bacap.git/blobdiff_plain/39a46f88097147eafc80c9c9cc8e6a182c3e6a7f..c2ca8f108021a3eea9102152ae1ea7cc940773c0:/README diff --git a/README b/README index c15200c..8c076a0 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ configuration file):: mkdir -p $CONFIG_PATH -The create a directory for each host you want to backup there, the directory +Then create a directory for each host you want to backup there, the directory name should be the name of the host (as you would use to connect to it using ssh_). For now let's say we will only backup ``localhost``:: @@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ backup rata's home:: echo /home/rata/ > $CONFIG_PATH/$LOCALHOST/excludes +Also, if you don't want to exclude files matching some pattern, you can create +a file named ``includes`` with the patterns you want to include (you can use +anything supported by the ``--include-from`` rsync_ option) + That's pretty much it. If you want to add other hosts, just create the host directory and the needed host configuration files. @@ -152,6 +156,10 @@ for any host, it skips that host. A symbolic link is created at the end of the backup, with the name ``$BACKUP_PATH/$host/current``, and pointing to the newly created directory. +Also, to see what have actually changed between two backups you can run rsync +with your usual flags plus "-nv --delete". For example if you just use "-a", to +see the differences between lolaus/2010-07-11 and lolaus/2010-07-12 you can run:: + rsync -nav --delete lolaus/2010-07-11/ lolaus/2010-07-12/ Similar alternatives