wok-current annotate rsnapshot/description.txt @ rev 25621
Patch gst-plugins-base to build with gcc >= 4.9
author | Stanislas Leduc <shann@slitaz.org> |
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date | Mon Sep 04 15:10:47 2023 +0000 (17 months ago) |
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Hans-G?nter@25286 | 1 Rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 2 Rsnapshot makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 3 and remote machines over ssh. |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 4 The code makes extensive use of hard links whenever possible, to greatly |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 5 reduce the disk space required. |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 6 |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 7 Depending on your configuration, it is quite possible to set up in just |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 8 a few minutes. |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 9 Files can be restored by the users who own them, without the root user |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 10 getting involved. |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 11 |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 12 There are no tapes to change, so once it's set up, your backups can happen |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 13 automatically untouched by human hands. |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 14 And because rsnapshot only keeps a fixed (but configurable) number of |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 15 snapshots, the amount of disk space used will not continuously grow. |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 16 |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 17 It is written entirely in perl with no module dependencies, and has been |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 18 tested with versions 5.004 through 5.16.3. |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 19 It should work on any reasonably modern UNIX compatible OS. |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 20 |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 21 Rsnapshot was originally based on an article called Easy Automated |
Hans-G?nter@25286 | 22 Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync, by Mike Rubel. |