NAME App::sibs - Simple incremental backup system VERSION 0.15 DESCRIPTION "sibs" create backup from your computer to a destination server, using "rsync". * Setup First you need to "setup" sibs. The setup process will create a SSH key which is uploaded to the "destination" server. The key is created using "ssh-keygen" and uploaded using "ssh" and "perl". In addition, this step will create or update a config file. The default config file is ".sibs.conf" in $HOME, but you can also specify your own path. * Backup The second step will create the actual backup. This step can be automated in a cronjob, because the key created in the first step will not require any password to log into the remote backup server. Example crontab: 0 */4 * * * /usr/local/bin/sibs backup 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null This will create a backup every four hours. The backup will be "full" each time and kept for a month. Even so, it probably won't take up too much space, since all the files are hard linked, meaning an unchanged file will take up the same disk space for each backup. SYNOPSIS $ sibs $ sibs setup $ sibs backup * action: setup Used to set up the inital config file. * action: backup Used to take backup. * action: man Used to see this help text. * options: --verbose, --silent Adjust log level. * config file: Path to "CONFIG FILE". CONFIG FILE The config file is in perl format, and read by perl. This means that any perl code that exists in the file will be evaluated by perl. The return value need to be a hash with the config. Example: { format => '%d-%H', # default exclude => [qw( .cache .gvfs Downloads Dropbox Trash )], source => [qw( /home/username )], destination => "rsync://login-username@my.server.com/var/backup/username", } Defaults: * format: %d-%H The "format" will name the destination folder. See "FORMAT" in POSIX::strftime::GNU for details. * exclude: .cache, .gvfs, Downloads, Dropbox, Trash Which files/directories to exclude. * source: $HOME Which directory to backup. Default "exclude" may change in future release. COPYRIGHT This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0. AUTHOR Jan Henning Thorsen - "jhthorsen@cpan.org"