5 in the dss source directory to build the dss executable. You
6 likely need a recent version of gnu gengetopt,
7 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gengetopt/, to compile dss.
9 dss is known to compile on Linux, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD and
10 NetBSD. However, it is run-tested on Linux only.
12 Also make sure that rsync, http://rsync.samba.org/, is installed on
13 your system. Version 2.6.1 or newer is required.
15 In order to create snapshots of the existing directory
26 ./dss --run --source-dir /tmp/foo --dest-dir /tmp/bar
28 To print a list of all snapshots created so far, use
30 ./dss --list --source-dir /tmp/foo --dest-dir /tmp/bar
32 You might want to create the config file
36 that contains the values for the source and the destination
37 directories. In the above example, this file would contain the
43 Using a configuration file allows you to simply type
47 to start snapshot creation and
51 to list all avalable snapshots.
57 for an overview of all supported command line options or
61 for the full help text.