I'd love to use "dpkg --compare-versions" but we don't want backupninja to be
Debian-specific. Any similar tool?

Signed-off-by: intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>

This is necessary to get rid of unnecessary old cache files when cleaning up,
when using duplicity >=0.6.01 that depends on local caching.

Closes: #572721

to improve the ninjahelper interface as requested by alster in redmine

something to the changelog all for 98e62c95

Thanks to maniacmartin <martin@maniacmartin.com> for the patch on which this one
is based.
This closes Redmine bug #1209.

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

This also fixes Redmine bug #1021.

This should fix Redmine bug #1340.

This option makes pipelines return as status the value of the last (rightmost)
command to exit with a non-zero status, or zero if all commands exit
successfully. See bash(1) for details.

E.g. this prevents the following from exiting with status 0 (!) if pg_dumpall
fails:

        pg_dumpall | gzip

reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the local filesystem (Closes: #536049)

Cherry-picked and re-indented patch 76792c8f45afa1fdaeb81c2af77499ca0b83ce64
from Olivier Berger.

Conflicts:

	src/backupninja.in

This commit (64edfccf) was wrongly committed to
the debian branch.

Conflicts:

	handlers/mysql.in

... hoping it will help supporting *BSD some day.

... to support shell meta-characters in database names.
Closes Redmine bug #617.

rhatto authored 15 years ago and micah committed 15 years ago

- Added support for:
  - Remote destinations
  - Long rotation format similar to maildir handler
  - Batch files through --read-batch and --write-batch
  - Custom file list using --files-from
  - SSH persistent connection using ControlMaster
  - The rsync:// protocol
- Metadata folder for each backup folder
- General refactoring
- Code cleanup

Not all options were tested and it might contain bugs.
Tests, comments and patches are welcome. :)

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