Thanks to Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org> for the patch.

The handler has been heavily broken for a while.
It clearly lacks a maintainer.

when=XXX did work already. This patch allow to write this with spaces around the
equal sign - as in every other backup.d/ file.

Jacob Anawalt authored 14 years ago and intrigeri committed 14 years ago

The format option of pg_dump enables tar and custom archive file formats in
addition to the default plain-text file containing SQL commands.

When either the tar or custom format are selected the behaviour of database=all is changed to no longer dump a single file via pg_dumpall. Instead pg_dumpall
is called once to export the "global" data (roles & tablespaces) and then
pg_dump is called once for each non-template table in the database.

To support the GZIP and GZIP_OPTS variables in backupninja and to give the
default --rsyncable gzip compression flag a chance at working on a PostgreSQL
backup, the custom output is forced to not use compression. Instead compression
is done via a pipe to gzip. Hopefully this benefits rsync and rdiff-backup
style backups for reduced backup and storage costs that outweigh the
restoration ones.

... for rdiff.helper, dup.helper, example.dup and example.rdiff.

This is the only way to securely transmit the FTP password from backupninja
to duplicity.

Thanks to stefan <s.freudenberg@jpberlin.de> for the patch.
This fixes Redmine bug #658.

number of hash marks, clearly specify example settings and what the
defaults are set to.

updated the example.maildir to include this option, as well as detail the missing desid_file, destport

add the ability to save the debconf package selection states in the sys handler, which aides in restoring installed packages with the right choices made

made mktemp a requirement for building backupninja, added autotools variables to substitute the proper binary location and removed bad fall-back when mktemp was not there

sys: support selection of VServers to run on with the new vsnames configuration option (Closes: Trac#45)

dup: support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2)

why this is needed, in case someone wants to change this (Closes: #409192)