X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=dss.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dss.ggo;h=7afa4ca94237c70b17563ce206d125372dfead7a;hp=d843906bf718906944fa46bd5e22687f9e14149a;hb=7ce5c98850d6888586eaceb88da809286e751f96;hpb=6f9a0ecf236d5171dda08897af39ddcf0a92f007;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/dss.ggo b/dss.ggo index d843906..7afa4ca 100644 --- a/dss.ggo +++ b/dss.ggo @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ # Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING. package "dss" -version "0.0.5" +version "0.1.0" purpose "the dyadic snapshot scheduler dss creates hardlink-based snapshots of a given directory on a remote @@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ groupoption "run" R group="command" details=" This is the main mode of operation. Snapshots will be created - as needed and pruned automatically. + in an endless loop as needed and pruned automatically. The loop + only terminates on fatal errors or if a terminating signal was + received. See also the --exit-hook option. " ############################### @@ -214,13 +216,14 @@ details=" unit intervals. dss removes any snapshots older than n times u and tries to - keep 2^(k-1) snapshots in interval k, where the interval number - k counts from zero, zero being the most recent unit interval. + keep 2^(n - k - 1) snapshots in interval k, where the interval + number k counts from zero, zero being the most recent unit + interval. In other words, the oldest snapshot will at most be u * n days (= 20 days if default values are used) old. Moreover, there are at most 2^n - 1 snapshots in total (i. e. 31 by default). - Observe that you have to create at least 2 ^ (n - 1) snapshots + Observe that you have to create at least 2^(n - 1) snapshots each interval for this to work out because that is the number of snapshots in interval zero. " @@ -270,6 +273,22 @@ details=" store them in a database for further analysis. " +option "exit-hook" e +#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +"Executed if run command exits" +string typestr="command" +optional +details=" + This hook is only used if the --run command was given which + instructs dss to run in an endless loop. The exit-hook gets + executed whenever this endless loop terminates. The reason + for terminating the loop is passed as the first argument. + + One possible application for this hook is to send email to the + system administrator to let her know that no more snapshots + are going to be created. +" + ############################### section "Disk space monitoring" ############################### @@ -322,3 +341,17 @@ details=" A value of zero (the default) deactivates this check. " + +option "keep-redundant" k +#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +"Prune by disk space only" +flag off +details=" + If this flag is not given dss removes redundant and outdated + snapshots automatically. + + Otherwise, this feature is deactivated so that snapshots + are only being removed in case disk space or inode ratio + becomes low. Use this flag if the file system containing the + destination directory is used for snapshots only. +"