5 in the dss source directory to build the dss executable and copy it to
6 some directory that is included in your PATH, e.g. to $HOME/bin or to
9 Note that you'll likely need a recent version of
10 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gengetopt/ (gnu gengetopt) to compile dss.
12 dss is known to compile on Linux, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD and
13 NetBSD. However, it is run-tested only on Linux.
15 Also make sure that http://rsync.samba.org/ (rsync) is installed on
16 your system. Version 2.6.1 or newer is required.
21 Suppose you'd like to create snapshots of the existing directory
29 Create the config file
33 that contains the values for the source and the destination directories
36 echo 'source-dir "/foo/bar"' > ~/.dssrc
37 echo 'dest-dir "/baz/qux"' >> ~/.dssrc
39 Then execute the commands
44 In order to print the list of all snapshots created so far, use
48 Yes, it's really that easy. Of course, dss supports many more
49 features and config options such as taking snapshots from remote
50 hosts and several hooks that are executed on certain events, for
51 example whenever a snapshot was created successfully. Try
55 for an overview of all supported command line options or
59 for the full help text.