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+.TH BACKUPNINJA 1 "January 2, 2005" "riseup" "backupninja package"
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+.SH NAME
+BACKUPNINJA \- A lightweight, extensible meta-backup system
+.br
+.I
+"a silent flower blossom death strike to lost data."
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B "backupninja [ \-h ] [ \-d ] [ \-f filename]"
+.br
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B Backupninja
+allows you to coordinate system backups by dropping a few
+simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you
+might use for making backups don't have their own configuration file
+format. Backupninja provides a centralized way to configure and
+coordinate many different backup utilities.
+.PP
+
+.SH FEATURES
+ - easy to read ini style configuration files.
+ - secure, remote, incremental filesytem backup (via rdiff-backup).
+ incremental data is compressed. permissions are retained even
+ with an unprivileged backup user.
+ - backup of mysql databases (via mysqlhotcopy and mysqldump).
+ - backup of ldap databases (via slapcat and ldapsearch).
+ - passwords are never sent via the command line to helper programs.
+ - you can drop in scripts to handle new types of backups.
+ - backup actions can be scheduled
+ - you can choose when status report emails are mailed to you
+ (always, on warning, on error, never).
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+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B \-h, \-\-help
+Show summary of options
+.TP
+.B \-d, \-\-debug
+Run in debug mode, where all log messages are output to the current shell.
+.TP
+.B \-f, \-\-conffile FILE
+Use FILE for the main configuration instead of /etc/backupninja.conf
+.TP
+.B \-t, \-\-test
+Run in test mode, no actions are actually taken.
+.TP
+.B \-n, \-\-now
+Perform actions now, instead of when they might be scheduled.
+
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.TP
+Backupninja can be used to impliment whatever backup strategy you choose. It is intended, however, to be used like so:
+.TP
+First, databases are safely copied or exported to /var/backups. Often, you cannot make a file backup of a database while it is in use, hence the need to use special tools to make a safe copy or export into /var/backups.
+.TP
+Then, vital parts of the file system, including /var/backups, are nightly pushed to a remote, off-site, hard disk (using rdiff-backup). The local user is root, but the remote user is not privileged. Hopefully, the remote filesystem is encrypted.
+.TP
+There are many different backup strategies out there, including "pull style", magnetic tape, rsync + hard links, etc. We believe that the strategy outlined above is the way to go because: (1) hard disks are very cheap these days, (2) pull style backups are no good, because then the backup server must have root on the production server, and (3) rdiff-backup is more space efficient and featureful than using rsync + hard links.
+
+.SH SSH KEYS
+.TP
+In order for rdiff-backup to sync files over ssh unattended, you must create ssh keys on the source server and copy the public key to the remote user's authorized keys file. For example:
+
+.br
+root@srchost# ssh-keygen -t dsa
+.br
+root@srchost# ssh-copy-id -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub backup@desthost
+
+.TP
+Now, you should be able to ssh from user 'root' on srchost to user 'backup' on desthost without specifying a password.
+
+.TP
+Note: when prompted for a password by ssh-keygen, just leave it blank by hitting return.
+
+.SH FILES
+.PD 0
+\fB/usr/sbin/backupninja\fP main script
+.br
+\fB/etc/backupninja.conf\fP main configuration file; general options
+.br
+\fB/etc/cron.d/backupninja\fP runs main script nightly
+.br
+\fB/etc/logrotate.d/backupninja\fP rotates backupninja.log
+.br
+\fB/etc/backup.d\fP directory for configuration files
+.br
+\fB/usr/share/backupninja\fP directory for handler scripts
+.br
+.PD
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR backupninja.conf (5),
+.br
+.SH AUTHOR
+BACKUPNINJA was written by <elijah@riseup.net>.
+.br
+BACKUPNINJA was packaged by <micah@riseup.net>.
+.PP
+This manual page was written by stefani <stefani@riseup.net>.
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