| 1 | Source: rsync-backup |
| 2 | Section: utils |
| 3 | Priority: extra |
| 4 | Maintainer: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |
| 5 | XS-Python-Version: >= 2.5 |
| 6 | Build-Depends: mlib-dev (>= 2.1.0), debhelper (>= 8.1) |
| 7 | Standards-Version: 3.1.1 |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Package: rsync-backup |
| 10 | Architecture: any |
| 11 | Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, rsync, openssh-client |
| 12 | Recommends: lvm2 |
| 13 | Description: Yet another `rsync --link-dest' backup script. |
| 14 | It uses rsync's ability to create hardlinks from (apparently) similar |
| 15 | existing local trees to make incre- mental dumps efficient, even from remote |
| 16 | sources. Restoring files is easy because the backups created are just |
| 17 | directories full of files, exactly as they were on the source - and this is |
| 18 | verified using the fshash(1) program (included). |
| 19 | . |
| 20 | The script does more than just running rsync. It is also responsible for |
| 21 | creating and removing snapshots of volumes to be backed up, and expiring old |
| 22 | dumps according to a user-specified retention policy. |