From a524a9e7a3e4ab3a908bc2da3fb6565b26762e71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nico Schottelius Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:45:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] too late --- doc/CHANGES | 2 +- doc/TODO | 2 ++ doc/ccollect.text | 11 +++++------ 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES index 290f0cd..8d90ef4 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES +++ b/doc/CHANGES @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ 0.4 to 0.4.1: - * updated documentation + * updated documentation, fixed some English related problems * added Texinfo documentation * added a manpage (English) * fixed problem with 'make install' (strip was used) diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 99e4c83..6cb1f72 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ - add --version, -V +- hint: : in path / sed / general problem +- hint: backuping backup - do we want rsync -H by default? - update documentation: diff --git a/doc/ccollect.text b/doc/ccollect.text index a7d420b..bfca8b8 100644 --- a/doc/ccollect.text +++ b/doc/ccollect.text @@ -109,8 +109,9 @@ Runtime options the directory specified by the variable '$CCOLLECT_CONF' (use 'CCOLLECT_CONF=/your/config/dir ccollect.sh' on the shell). -When you start `ccollect`, you have either to specify which interval -to backup (daily, weekly, yearly; you can specify the names yourself, see below). +When you start `ccollect`, you have to specify which interval +to use for backup (daily, weekly, yearly; you can specify the names yourself, +see below) and which sources to backup or -a (to backup all source). The interval is used to specify how many backups to keep. @@ -454,7 +455,7 @@ Now you could use /home/backup/web1 as the `destination` for the backup. Do *not* name the first backup something like "daily.initial", but use the "*0*" (or some very low number, at least lower than the current year) as extension. `ccollect` uses `sort` to find the latest backup. `ccollect` -itself uses 'interval.YEAR-MONTH-DAY-HOUR:MINUTE.PID'. This notation will +itself uses 'interval.YEAR-MONTH-DAY-HOURMINUTE.PID'. This notation will *always* be before "daily.initial", as numbers are earlier in the list which is produced by `sort`. So, if you have a directory named "daily.initial", `ccollect` will always diff against this backup and transfer and delete @@ -479,8 +480,7 @@ F.A.Q. What happens, if one backup is broken or empty? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let us assume, that one backup failed (connection broke or the source -hard disk had some failures). So we've one backup in our history, -which is incomplete. +hard disk had some failures). So we've an incomplete backup in our history. The next time you use `ccollect`, it will transfer the missing files. This leads to @@ -507,7 +507,6 @@ permissions. Try `chmod 0755 /etc/ccollect/sources/'yoursource'/*_exec``. Why does the backup job fail, when part of the source is a link? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - When a part of your path you specified in the source is a (symbolic, hard links are not possible for directories) link, the backup *must* fail.