Updated configuration documentation

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Nico Schottelius 2005-12-14 10:25:10 +01:00
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@ -26,11 +26,12 @@ There are also some self explaining parameters you can pass to ccollect, simply
1. General configuration
The general configuration can be found below $CCOLLECT_CONF/defaults or
/etc/ccollect/defaults. All options specified here are valid for
all source definitions, if the values are not overwritten in the source
/etc/ccollect/defaults. All options specified here are generally valid for
all source definitions. Though the values can be overwritten in the source
configuration.
All configuration entries are plain-text files.
All configuration entries are plain-text (use UTF-8 if you use
non ASCII characters) files.
1.2. Intervall definition
@ -46,7 +47,19 @@ name of the intervall:
The content of this file should be a single line containing a number.
This number defines how many versions of this intervall to keep.
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Example:
[10:23] zaphodbeeblebrox:ccollect-0.2% ls -l conf/defaults/intervalls/
insgesamt 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 nico users 3 2005-12-08 10:24 daily
-rw-r--r-- 1 nico users 3 2005-12-08 11:36 monthly
-rw-r--r-- 1 nico users 2 2005-12-08 11:36 weekly
[10:23] zaphodbeeblebrox:ccollect-0.2% cat conf/defaults/intervalls/*
28
12
4
This means to keep 28 daily backups, 12 monthly backups and 4 weekly.
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2. Source configuration