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rsync-backup

versatile rsync based backup scripts with minimal dependencies

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BACKUP-PREPARE

NAME

backup-prepare - prepare for backups

SYNOPSIS

backup-prepare

[<OPTION>]...

DESCRIPTION

Prepare for backups \by executing preparation scripts. This can be used for dumping database snapshots to files, for instance.

Preparation is done with idle I/O priority (whose impact on normal system activity should be zero), with an adjusted niceness (which affect process scheduling) and with minimized effect on file system cache provided that the commands ionice(1), nice(1) and nocache(1) are available. For details, see backup-nice(1).

OPTIONS

-h, --help[=<FORMAT>]

Show this help message and exit.

-V, --version

Show version information and exit.

FILES

./conf/dump-config

An optional configuration file used by some ./conf/pre.d/*-dump scripts containing configuration variable assignments.

./conf/pre.d/

An optional directory containing scripts which are executed in lexical order of names. The names of the files must consist of only characters matching the pattern [[:alnum:]_.-].

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.