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Diffstat (limited to 'etc/backup.d')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/backup.d/example.rdiff | 22 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/etc/backup.d/example.rdiff b/etc/backup.d/example.rdiff index 476cf5a..1fe31bb 100644 --- a/etc/backup.d/example.rdiff +++ b/etc/backup.d/example.rdiff @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ ## passed directly to rdiff-backup # options = --force +## default is 0, but set to 19 if you want to lower the priority. +# nicelevel = 19 + +## default is yes. set to no to skip the test if the remote host is alive +# testconnect = no + ###################################################### ## source section ## (where the files to be backed up are coming from) @@ -18,6 +24,11 @@ type = local # (you can also use the time format of rdiff-backup, e.g. 6D5h) keep = 60 +# a note about includes and excludes: +# all the excludes come after all the includes. +# otherwise, the order is not taken into account. +# currently, you cannot do "include = /" + # files to include in the backup # (supports globbing with '*') include = /var/spool/cron/crontabs @@ -40,17 +51,18 @@ include = /var/lib/dpkg/status-old [dest] -# only remote type is currently supported +# default is remote, if set to 'local' then +# ignore the 'host' and 'user' options. type = remote -# the machine which will receive the backups -host = backuphost - # put the backups under this directory directory = /backups +# the machine which will receive the backups +host = backuphost + # make the files owned by this user # note: you must be able to ssh backupuser@backhost -# without specifying a password +# without specifying a password (if type = remote). user = backupuser |