X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=dss.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dss.ggo;h=09e345d8db8f270de4182cda8d6033b236407724;hp=099df4cd163765da66e2ba7eb1dca26789af1ed4;hb=fd7ab0475e24ec414883bf3772db160869ed2e0c;hpb=cd4dc100fa8507f254e935e0747161d6a201b73c diff --git a/dss.ggo b/dss.ggo index 099df4c..09e345d 100644 --- a/dss.ggo +++ b/dss.ggo @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -# Copyright (C) 2008 Andre Noll +# Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Andre Noll # # 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snapshots of a given directory on a remote @@ -110,11 +110,17 @@ groupoption "prune" P "Remove redundant and outdated snapshots" group="command" details=" - A snapshot is considered outdated if it belongs to an interval - greater than the maximum number of intervals.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 + A snapshot is considered outdated if its interval number + is greater or equal than the specified number of unit + intervals.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 + + The prune command gets rid of both outdated and redundant + snapshots.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 @@ -188,6 +194,21 @@ details=" 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" @@ -277,6 +298,39 @@ details=" store them in a database for further analysis. " +option "pre-remove-hook" - +#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +"Executed before snapshot removal" +string typestr="command" +optional +details=" + Execute this command before removing a snapshot. The full + path to the snapshot about to be deleted is passed to the + command as the first argument. If the command returns with + a non-zero exit status, no snapshot is being removed and the + operation is retried later. + + For example, one might want to execute a script that checks + whether the snapshot to be deleted is currently used by + another process, e.g. by a tape-based backup system that runs + concurrently to dss. + + Another possible application of this is to record disk-usage + patterns before and after snapshot removal. +" + +option "post-remove-hook" - +#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +"Executed after snapshot removal" +string typestr="command" +optional +details=" + Execute this after a snapshot has successfully been removed. As + for the pre-remove hook, the full path of the removed snapshot + is passed to the hook as the first argument. The exit code + of this hook is ignored. +" + option "exit-hook" e #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Executed if run command exits"