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John Lawless a030a98982 First, I added the following before any old backup gets deleted: 
>    # Verify source is up and accepting connections before deleting any old backups
>    rsync "$source" >/dev/null || _exit_err "Source ${source} is not readable. Skipping."

I think that this quick test is a much better than, say, pinging
the source in a pre-exec script: this tests not only that the
source is up and connected to the net, it also verifies (1) that
ssh is up and accepting our key (if we are using ssh), and (2) that
the source directory is mounted (if it needs to be mounted) and
readable.
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conf add testsource for &-test 2009-02-02 11:49:12 +01:00
contrib add patched version of ccollect-0.7.1 by John Lawless 2009-05-23 14:34:09 +02:00
doc add macosx as tested 2009-02-04 16:28:57 +01:00
test update exec.sh 2008-03-14 09:25:04 +01:00
tools continue check script 2008-07-23 11:31:01 +02:00
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CREDITS update credits 2008-04-26 13:21:37 +02:00
Makefile add ccollect_list_intervals.sh to the tools 2009-02-02 12:14:34 +01:00
README update to 0.7, add hint to tools/report_success.sh 2008-03-08 09:29:59 +01:00
ccollect.sh First, I added the following before any old backup gets deleted: 2009-05-25 08:39:28 +02:00
release.sh update release script 2009-02-02 12:39:42 +01:00

README 

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ccollect.sh, Nico Schottelius, 2005-12-06
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ccollect backups (local or remote) data to local or remote destinations.

You can retrieve the latest version of ccollect at [0].

ccollect was inspired by rsnapshot [1], which has some problems:
   - configuration parameters has to be TAB seperated
   - you can not specify per source exclude lists
   - no per source pre/post execution support
   - no parallel execution
   - does unecessary moving of backup directories
   - I didn't like the configuration at all, so I used the cconfig style [2].

Please use tools/report_success.sh to report success, if you are successfully
using ccollect.

A small try to visualize the differences in a table:

+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|     What?     |         rsnapshot            |         ccollect             | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Configuration | tab separated, needs         |     plain cconfig-style      | 
|               | parsing                      |                              | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Per source    |                              |                              | 
| post-/pre-    |            no                |            yes               | 
| execution     |                              |                              | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Per source    |                              |                              | 
| exclude lists |            no                |            yes               | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Parallel      |                              |                              | 
| execution     |                              |                              | 
| of multiple   |            no                |            yes               | 
| backups       |                              |                              | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Programming   |            perl              |            sh                | 
| language      |                              |      (posix compatible)      | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Lines of code |  6772 (5353 w/o comments,    |  546 (375 w/o comments,      | 
| (2006-10-25)  |        4794 w/o empty lines) |       288 w/o empty lines)   | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|    Age        |  Available since 2002/2003   |    Written at 2005-11-14     | 
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+

Included documentation:

doc/ccollect.text          Manual in text format
doc/ccollect.html          Manual in xhtml (generated)

doc/ccollect-DE.text       German manual in text format (externally maintained)
doc/ccollect-DE.html       German manual in xhtml (generated)

doc/man/ccollect.text      Manpage in text format
doc/man/ccollect.man       Manpage in manpage format (generated)

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[0]: ccollect:    http://unix.schottelius.org/ccollect/
[1]: rsnapshot:   http://www.rsnapshot.org/
[2]: cconfig:     http://nico.schotteli.us/papers/linux/cconfig/