Configuration is read from /etc/faubackup.conf.
Blank lines and lines starting with `#' are ignored.
Perl-Syntax is used to change things: `$key = value;'.
The file must start with package FAUBACKUP; and end
with 1;.
These settings are supported:
$backup = string;
The default destination for backups. This is used when no destination
directory is specified on the command line.
It may contain the special strings MACHINE and/or DIR,
which are replaced by the hostname or directory-name of the backup source.
Slashes in the source directory name will be converted to dashes.
Default is "/backup/MACHINE:DIR".
$autocreate = number;
If non-zero, faubackup will create the destination
directory, if it doesn't already exist.
Default is enabled(1) .
$keepyears = number;
Yearly backups are kept for at least number years when cleaning.
Default is to keep two yearly backups.
$keepmonths = number;
Monthly backups are kept for at least number months when cleaning.
Default is to keep twelve monthly backups.
$keepweeks = number;
Weekly backups are kept for at least number weeks when cleaning.
Default is to keep four weekly backups.
$keepdays = number;
Daily backups are kept for at least number days when cleaning.
Default is to keep seven daily backups.
$keeplastofday = boolean;
If this is nonzero, the last daily backup (instead of the first)
will be kept when cleaning.
Default is zero (keep the first even for daily backups).
$rsh = string;
The command executed to start commands on remote machines.
This may be overwritten by the environment Variable
FAUBACKUP_RSH.
Default is to use "rsh".
$gather = string;
The command used to gather the files.
Default is "faubackup-gather".
$scatter = string;
The command used to scatter the files.
Default is "faubackup-scatter".
$find = string;
The command used to compute the file list to backup.
Default is "faubackup-find".
This command must list all files on stdout, separated by NUL characters.
The last entry sent MUST be the current directory, "."!
$getroot = string;
The command used to obtain root access. Can be set to "sudo" or similar.
There is no default.
@ignore = list of strings;
Arguments passed to the $find Command.
For faubackup-find, this is a list of expressions not to be processed.
See faubackup-find(8) for details.
$atime_preserve = number;
If this variable is non-null then --atime-preserve will be passed
to faubackup-gather
FauBackup is Copyright (c) 2000-01 Dr. Volkmar Sieh, (c) 2000-04 Martin Waitz.
Developed at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
FauBackup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
version.
Look at COPYING for details.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>.
