What is this about ? ******************** This lets you back up multiple machines over your network onto an archive server. The backups on the archive server appear as complete copies of directories of the backed up machines. There will appear to be one complete backup for each day - this lets you find/restore a consistent set of files from a particular day. The script cleverly avoids copying files that have not changed. It economises on disk use by only keeping one copy of each file - but makes that one copy appear in the various daily archives. The idea is that one central archive server initiates backups on several other machines. This script works well where you have many files that do not change from day to day, eg word processing documents. It is not so good where most of your files change frequently - but will still work. Installation ************ Read the file Documentation for a full description of how to do this. License ******* This software is copyright (c) Alain Williams , 2007, 2008. Read the file License Keeping up to date ****************** You may find newer versions of this software at: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/downloads.php Where you will also find references to email lists that relate to this software. Contributing ************ RsyncBackup is free software (see the license). Free software grows and becomes more powerful and useful as those who gain by using it contribute their changes back to the original author. Contributions to this software are welcome. Please email the author the following: * your name & email address * your affiliation (company/institute/...) if any * the code * documentation * a statement that you are legally able to release the code and documentation * a statement transfering copyright to the Author below giving permission that it may be redistributed as part of UserAdmin under an appropriate license Contributions will be acknowledged in the Contributors file that accompanies this software. If you do not want to be acknowledged please make that clear. The author will be pleased to receive your comments, good or bad. SCCS: @(#)README 1.2 08/21/08 12:28:57