The snapback2 script is an enhancement of Art Mulder's original snapback script, which was based on Mike Rubel's research into using rsync as a backup method. It greatly revamps configuration, and has the following features:
There is documentation embedded in the script file -- it is installed as a man page by default.
A few support scripts, snapcopy, snapback_loop, and snap_charge, are included.
INSTALLATION
To install snapback2 type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This script requires these other modules and libraries:
Config::ApacheFormat
Because it is based on rsync, it requires that program. It was developed on rsync-2.5.7 and should work with that and all subsequent versions. It may work with previous versions, but that has not been tested.
It also requires GNU "cp", "mv", and "rm". Other versions may not work due to use of GNU-specific options, particularly in "cp".
AUTHOR
Mike Heins, <snapback2@perusion.org>. Kudos, comments, suggestions, and complaints are invited to that address.
SUPPORT
This script is offered without support. The author has been known to answer questions, but no hand-holding will be done -- for example, if your message has a subject of "HELP!!!" it is automatically deleted. If you don't get an answer it is probably because the question was not good enough or is answered in the supplied documentation.
See http://www.icdevgroup.org/the_authors_life.txt if you have any questions about this policy.
CREDITS
Mike Rubel, for the initial research.
Art Mulder, for the original script.
ICDEVGROUP (http://icdevgroup.org/), especially Jon Jensen, for support and build scripts.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2004 Mike Heins, <snapback2@perusion.org>
Copyright (C) 2002 Art Mulder
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Mike Rubel <mrubel@caltech.edu>
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.