-# Copyright (C) 2008 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
+# Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
#
# Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
package "dss"
-version "0.1.2"
+version "0.1.3"
purpose "the dyadic snapshot scheduler
dss creates hardlink-based snapshots of a given directory on a remote
"Remove redundant and outdated snapshots"
group="command"
details="
- A snapshot is considered outdated if it belongs to an interval
- greater than the maximum number of intervals. It is said to be
- redundant if it belongs to an interval that already contains
- more than the desired number of snapshots. This command gets
- rid of such snapshots.
+ A snapshot is considered outdated if its interval number
+ is greater or equal than the specified number of unit
+ intervals. See the \"Intervals\" section below for the precise
+ definition of these terms.
+
+ A snapshot is said to be redundant if it belongs to an
+ interval that already contains more than the desired number
+ of snapshots.
+
+ The prune command gets rid of both outdated and redundant
+ snapshots.
"
groupoption "ls" L
dss.
"
+option "no-resume" -
+#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+"Do not try to resume from previous runs"
+flag off
+details = "
+ Starting from version 0.1.4, dss tries to resume from a
+ previously cancelled dss instance by default. It does so by
+ looking at the status of the most recently created snapshot. If
+ this snapshot status is incomplete, its directory is reused
+ as the destination directory for a subsequent rsync run.
+
+ The --no-resume option deactivates this feature so that a new
+ directory is always used as the rsync destination directory.
+"
+
option "rsync-option" O
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Further rsync options"