X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=dss.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dss.ggo;h=9c687f42d575606cdb852bf7b829e4def7d64edf;hp=fc52bee7c7ea2913ce5084ef02724147f2692aff;hb=723146898de138324dd6e421af05fd61c6cda848;hpb=a6727ed6659f287eb2a4f68ac5fbf3178f40498f diff --git a/dss.ggo b/dss.ggo index fc52bee..9c687f4 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 "0.1.2" purpose "the dyadic snapshot scheduler dss creates hardlink-based snapshots of a given directory on a remote @@ -195,8 +195,12 @@ string typestr="option" optional multiple details=" - These option may be given multiple times. The arguments passed - to that option are passed verbatim to the rsync command. + This option may be given multiple times. The given argument is + passed verbatim to the rsync command. Note that in order to use + rsync options that require an argument, you have to specify the + option and its argument as separate --rsync-options, like this: + + --rsync-option --exclude --rsync-option /proc " ################### @@ -273,6 +277,37 @@ 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. If this + 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. 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"Executed if run command exits" @@ -350,8 +385,8 @@ details=" If this flag is not given dss removes redundant and outdated snapshots automatically.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 + Otherwise, this feature is deactivated so that snapshots are + only being removed in case disk space or number of free inodes becomes low. Use this flag if the file system containing the destination directory is used for snapshots only. "