# ccollect(1)

Nico Schottelius
`<nico-ccollect--@--schottelius.org>`

## 1. NAME

ccollect - (pseudo) incremental backup with different exclude lists using hardlinks and rsync

## 2. SYNOPSIS

ccollect.sh [args] <interval name> <sources to backup>

## 3. DESCRIPTION

`ccollect` is a backup utility written in the sh-scripting language. It does not depend on a specific shell, only `/bin/sh` needs to be bourne shell compatibel (like dash, ksh, zsh, bash, …).

For more information refer to the manual titled "ccollect - Installing, Configuring and Using" (available as text (asciidoc), texinfo or html).

## 4. OPTIONS

-a, --all

  Backup all sources specified in /etc/ccollect/sources

-e, --errors

  Log only errors

-h, --help

  Show the help screen

-j [max], --jobs [max]

  Specifies the number of jobs to run simultaneously. If max is not specified then parallelise all jobs.

-l FILE, --logfile FILE

  Log to specified file

-p, --parallel

  Parallelise backup processes (deprecated from 2.0)

-s, --syslog

  Log to syslog with tag ccollect

-V, --version

  Show version and exit

-v, --verbose

  Be very verbose (uses set -x)

## 5. LOGGING MECHANISM

ccollect logging depends on running in non-interactive/interactive mode and on specified optins. The mechanism behaves as the following:

non-interactive mode

  - standard output goes to syslog

  - optional: specify logging into file

  - log all output by default

  - optional: log only errors

interactive mode

  - standard output goes to stdout

  - log only errors

  - optional: log into syslog or file

    - log all output by default

    - optional: log only errors

## 6. SEE ALSO

ccollect_add_source(1), ccollect_analyse_logs(1), ccollect_logwrapper(1) ccollect_delete_source(1), ccollect_list_intervals(1)

## 7. AUTHOR

Nico Schottelius <nico-ccollect--@--schottelius.org>

## 8. RESOURCES

Main web site: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ccollect/

## 9. COPYING

Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Nico Schottelius. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3).