Various programs and scripts use rsync to provide hardlinked backups.
See, for example, Mike Rubel's site (L<http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots>),
-JW Schultz's dirvish (L<http://www.pegasys.ws/dirvish> (although as of
-June 2004 this link doesn't work)),
+JW Schultz's dirvish (L<http://www.dirvish.org/>),
Ben Escoto's rdiff-backup (L<http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu>),
and John Bowman's rlbackup (L<http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup>).
Beyond being a satisfied user and telling other people about it, everyone
is encouraged to add links to L<http://backuppc.sourceforge.net>
-(I'll see then via Google) or otherwise publicize BackupPC. Unlike
+(I'll see them via Google) or otherwise publicize BackupPC. Unlike
the commercial products in this space, I have a zero budget (in both
time and money) for marketing, PR and advertising, so it's up to
all of you! Feel free to vote for BackupPC at
=head2 Step 3: Setting up config.pl
After running configure.pl, browse through the config file,
-__INSTALLDIR__/conf/config.pl, and make sure all the default settings
+__TOPDIR__/conf/config.pl, and make sure all the default settings
are correct. In particular, you will need to decide whether to use
smb, tar or rsync transport (or whether to set it on a per-PC basis)
and set the relevant parameters for that transport method.
Note that for direct restore to work, the $Conf{XferMethod} must
be able to write to the client. For example, that means an SMB
share for smbclient needs to be writable, and the rsyncd module
-needs "read only" set to "yes". This creates additional security
+needs "read only" set to "false". This creates additional security
risks. If you only create read-only SMB shares (which is a good
idea), then the direct restore will fail. You can disable the
direct restore option by setting $Conf{SmbClientRestoreCmd},
running. Therefore, when it is time to run BackupPC_nightly, no new
backups are started and BackupPC waits until all backups have finished.
Then BackupPC_nightly is run, and until it finishes no new backups are
-started. If BackupPC_nightly is slow, the settings
+started. If BackupPC_nightly takes too long to run, the settings
+$Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} and $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} can
+be used to run several BackupPC_nightly processes in parallel, and
+to split its job over several nights.
=back
=head1 Copyright
-Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Craig Barratt
+Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Craig Barratt
=head1 Credits
Lieven Bridts provided the Dutch translation, nl.pm, for v2.1.0,
with some tweaks from Guus Houtzager.
+Reginaldo Ferreira provided the Portuguese Brazillian translation
+pt_br.pm for v2.2.0.
+
Many people have reported bugs, made useful suggestions and helped
with testing; see the ChangeLog and the mail lists.