From a0b6810b7e5ac1d11b4b8e555c8304b65bce8559 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andre Noll Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:30:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add a second example config file. This commit provides another example for the INSTALL file. It illustrates the use of some more sophisticated config options of dss. Many thanks to Ivo Welch who suggested this change. --- INSTALL | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index ff4274b..a99abea 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ NetBSD. However, it is run-tested only on Linux. Also make sure that http://rsync.samba.org/ (rsync) is installed on your system. Version 2.6.1 or newer is required. -Example: --------- +Examples: +--------- Suppose you'd like to create snapshots of the existing directory @@ -53,10 +53,33 @@ In order to print the list of all snapshots created so far, use dss --ls -Yes, it's really that easy. Of course, dss supports many more -features and config options such as taking snapshots from remote -hosts and several hooks that are executed on certain events, for -example whenever a snapshot was created successfully. Try +Yes, it's really that easy. + +The second example involves a slightly more sophisticated config file. +It instructs dss to exclude everything which matches at least one +pattern of the given exclude file, prevents rsync from crossing file +system boundaries and increases the number of snapshots. + + source-dir "/foo/bar" + dest-dir "/baz/qux" + # exclude files matching patterns in /etc/dss.exclude + rsync-option "--exclude-from=/etc/dss.exclude" + # don't cross filesystem boundaries + rsync-option "--one-file-system" + # maintain 2^6 - 1 = 63 snaphots + num-intervals "6" + +The /etc/dss.exclude file could look like this (see rsync(1) for +more examples) + + + - /proc + - /**/tmp/ + +Note that dss supports many more features and config options such +as taking snapshots from remote hosts and several hooks that are +executed on certain events, for example whenever a snapshot was +created successfully. Try dss -h -- 2.39.5