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Rsync Incremental Backup Script

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 2.2

Notes:
Several cool new features contributed by Nathan & Dan.
If doing backups on the local machine a password is no longer needed.
Backup setups with large numbers of files which tend to be slow can now use an alternate method of incremental backups which are much faster.
Post-backup shell commands can now be run per-host. Include patterns are now supported.
See CHANGES for more info.
You can patch version 2.1 to 2.2 without losing your configuration settings using,
the ribs-2.1_to_2.2.patch.gz patch file.

Changes: 2.2 === * A per-host shell command can now be run for both a successful and unsuccessful backup (Nathan). * A different style of incremental backups is now available for each the hard link method is not used and only changed files are put into the backup directories. Useful for backup setups with lots of files (Nathan). * The ssh port is now configurable (Phil Schultz <phil@alcsoftware.com>) * Include patterns are now supported (Dan Allen <dan@mojavelinux.com>) * If ribs is backing up its host machine as the current user ssh is not used and no password is needed (Dan Allen <dan@mojavelinux.com>)