Can handle backup generations on *btrfs* and *ZFS*.
Copyright (c)2008-2020 Alexander Barton (<alex@barton.de>)
-Homepage: https://github.com/alexbarton/backup-script
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+Homepage: <https://github.com/alexbarton/backup-script>
## Installation
When no *job* is given, all defined jobs are checked.
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## Configuration
All default configuration variables are read from the first file found of this
- `/etc/backups-script.d/host01.example.net`: configuration for host 1
- `/etc/backups-script.d/clientXY.example.com`: configuration for host 2
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### Global Settings
The following global configuration options exist:
variant can be used and define default values for all jobs that don't overwrite
them individually.
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## Configuration Variables
### system
Supported file systems are:
- * *btrfs*:
- All generations are btrfs subvolumes and named after the date and time.
- * *ZFS*:
- All generations are ZFS file systems. Latest generation is named `current`,
- elders are links to the ZFS snapshot directories.
+- *btrfs*:
+ All generations are btrfs subvolumes and named after the date and time.
+- *ZFS*:
+ All generations are ZFS file systems. Latest generation is named `current`,
+ elders are links to the ZFS snapshot directories.
The latest snapshot is always reachable using a symlink named `latest`
inside the system directory.
script in job definition files are automatically mapped to the new backup-script
variables:
-* `host` -> `system`
-* `source` -> `source_root`
-* `pre_exec` -> `job_pre_exec`
-* `post_exec` -> `job_post_exec`
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+- `host` -> `system`
+- `source` -> `source_root`
+- `pre_exec` -> `job_pre_exec`
+- `post_exec` -> `job_post_exec`
## Exit codes