From d08596bd609c858422bbb18bad91f38bf08d9a4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nico Schottelius Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:12:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] cleanup some sections in ccollect Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius --- software/ccollect.mdwn | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/software/ccollect.mdwn b/software/ccollect.mdwn index f6b502a9..ecd08a84 100644 --- a/software/ccollect.mdwn +++ b/software/ccollect.mdwn @@ -2,18 +2,16 @@

-![ccollect-0.7.1](screenshots/ccollect-0.7.1.png "Example output of ccollect") -![ccollect-0.7.1](screenshots/ccollect-0.6-screenshot-20070816.png "Example output of ccollect") +![ccollect-0.7.1](screenshots/ccollect-0.7.1-screenshot-20090527.png "Example output of ccollect-0.6")

ccollect backups data from local and remote hosts to your local harddisk. -Although ccollect creates full backups, it requires very less space on -the backup medium, because ccollect uses hardlinks to create an initial -copy of the last backup. Only the inodes used by the hardlinks and -the changed files need additional space. +Although ccollect creates full backups, it requires very less space on the +backup medium, because ccollect uses hardlinks to create an initial copy of +the last backup. Only the inodes used by the hardlinks and the changed files +need additional space. -ccollect uses [rsync](http://www.samba.org/rsync/) -for synchronisation. Since ccollect-0.2 there is -[asciidoc](http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/) +ccollect uses [rsync](http://www.samba.org/rsync/) for synchronisation. +Since ccollect-0.2 there is [asciidoc](http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/) based documentation included in the distribution (see below). You should also be able to configure ccollect with the help of the example configuration in conf/. @@ -37,7 +35,7 @@ There used to be a German translation of the handbook, but it is outdated and thus removed. ### Portability -As ccollect is written in simple sh-script, it should run on +As ccollect is a simple shell script, it should run on any POSIX compatible OS. It is known or reported to run on:

-Feel free to send me an e-mail if you've ccollect running on another +Feel free to send an e-mail if you are running ccollect on another OS or architecture. ### Sample configurations @@ -56,16 +54,20 @@ OS or architecture.
  • Configuration for ccollect 0.3.3 or earlier from eiche.intern.schottelius.org -

    Getting ccollect

    -

    via git

    -
    -git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git
    -or
    -git clone http://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git
    -
    + +### Getting ccollect +You can get the latest (development) version via git: + + git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cLinux/ccollect.git + +A git mirror can be found at + + * [github](http://github.com/telmich/ccollect/tree/master) + Alternatively, you can -look -at the current status in gitweb. +[look at the current +status in gitweb](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=cLinux/ccollect.git;a=summary). +

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