cdist-type__dirbackup(7)
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NAME
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cdist-type__dirbackup - Periodically tar a directory somewhere else.

DESCRIPTION
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This type writes a script to tar a directory somewhere else accessible through
a filesystem, keeping only copies older than the requested days. The source
directory (or file, the type doesn't actually make a difference) to be targz'd
is expected as "$__object_id".

REQUIRED PARAMETERS
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destination
  The directory in which the backups are to be copied. Expects an absolute
  path. It will be created if it does not exist, but beware as it will then
  have cdist's default restrictive permissions.

frequency
  The directory in `/etc/periodic` to link the backup script to. Usual existing
  values are `15mn`, `hourly`, `daily`, `weekly`, `monthly`. Values here depend
  on your distribution an cron setup; this type currently only supports Alpine
  Linux, who's default values are the above mentioned.

keep
  The amount of days to keep data. A natural integer is expected, it is
  directly passed on to the `-mtime` argument of `find(1)`.

AUTHORS
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Joachim Desroches <joachim.desroches@epfl.ch>

COPYING
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Copyright \(C) 2020 Joachim Desroches. You can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.