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ccollect(1)
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Nico Schottelius <nico-ccollect--@--schottelius.org>
NAME
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ccollect - (pseudo) incremental backup with different exclude lists using hardlinks and rsync
SYNOPSIS
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'ccollect.sh' [args] <interval name> <sources to backup>
DESCRIPTION
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`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).
OPTIONS
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-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)
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
SEE ALSO
--------
ccollect_add_source(1), ccollect_analyse_logs(1), ccollect_logwrapper(1)
ccollect_delete_source(1), ccollect_list_intervals(1)
AUTHOR
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Nico Schottelius <mailto:nico-ccollect--@--schottelius.org[]>
RESOURCES
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Main web site: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ccollect/[]
COPYING
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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).