greatly improved the rdiff wizard. added default option to menu in easydialog.

[matthijs/upstream/backupninja.git] / README

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@@ -13,21 +13,38 @@ coordinate many different backup utilities.
 
 Features:
  - easy to read ini style configuration files.
+ - 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).
+ - console-based wizard (ninjahelper) makes it easy to create
+   backup action configuration files.
+ - passwords are never sent via the command line to helper programs.
+ - works with Linux-Vservers (http://linux-vserver.org/)
+ 
+Backup types:
  - secure, remote, incremental filesytem backup (via rdiff-backup).
    incremental data is compressed. permissions are retained even
    with an unpriviledged 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.
+ - basic system and hardware info
+ - encrypted remote backups (via duplicity).    
+ - backup of subversion repositories.
 
 The following options are available:
--h         This help message
--d         Run in debug mode, where all log messages are output
-           to the current shell.
--f <file>  Use <file> for the main configuration instead of
-           /etc/backupninja.conf
- 
+-h, --help           This usage message
+-d, --debug          Run in debug mode, where all log messages are
+                     output to the current shell.
+-f, --conffile FILE  Use FILE for the main configuration instead
+                     of /etc/backupninja.conf
+-t, --test           Test run mode. This will test if the backup could run, without actually
+                     preforming any backups. For example, it will attempt to authenticate
+                     or test that ssh keys are set correctly.
+-n, --now            Perform actions now, instead of when they might be scheduled.
+                     No output will be created unless also run with -d.
+--run FILE           Runs the specified action FILE (e.g. one of the /etc/backup.d/ files).
+                     Also puts backupninja in debug mode.
 
 CONFIGURATION FILES
 ===================
@@ -43,9 +60,11 @@ file in /etc/backup.d according to the file's suffix:
   .sh      --  run this file as a shell script.
   .rdiff   --  this is a configuration for rdiff-backup
   .maildir --  this is a configuration to backup maildirs
+  .dup     --  this is a configuration for duplicity
   .mysql   --  mysql backup configuration
   .ldap    --  ldap backup configuration
   .sys     --  general system reports
+  .svn     --  subversion repository backups
 
 Support for additional configuration types can be added by dropping
 bash scripts with the name of the suffix into /usr/share/backupninja. 
@@ -163,10 +182,7 @@ Requirements:
   apt-get install bash gawk
 
 Recommended: 
-  apt-get install rdiff-backup gzip
-
-Suggested:
-  apt-get install sfdisk discover  
+  apt-get install rdiff-backup gzip hwinfo
 
 Files:
   /usr/sbin/backupninja        -- main script
@@ -188,3 +204,21 @@ Installation:
   # mkdir /etc/backup.d/
   # mv etc/backupninja.conf /etc/backupninja.conf
   # mv handlers /usr/share/backupninja
+
+
+VSERVERS
+========
+
+If you are using Linux-Vservers (http://linux-vserver.org/) there are some
+special capabilities that different handlers have to make vserver backups easier.
+Set the variable "vservers" to be "yes" in /etc/backupninja.conf and see the
+example configuration files for each handler to configure the vserver specific
+variables.
+
+Additional vserver variables that can be configured in /etc/backupninja.conf. but
+probably don't need to be changed:
+
+VSERVERINFO (default: /usr/sbin/vserver-info)
+VSERVER (default: /usr/sbin/vserver)
+VROOTDIR (default: `$VSERVERINFO info SYSINFO |grep vserver-Rootdir | awk '{print $2}'; fi`)
+