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| author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2011-08-03 08:04:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2011-08-03 08:04:33 +0100 |
| commit | e4305830f073179913ef29cc48e3eb6b60b54b7b (patch) | |
| tree | 96bf0d5e28efaed009206cfff93035ea9a8a5205 | |
| parent | 7e532753d3990f2f59ea1bfaa432dea8ffa248fe (diff) | |
| download | obnam-e4305830f073179913ef29cc48e3eb6b60b54b7b.tar.gz | |
Update package description to be more useful.
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 8d299d30..4a2a1c10 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -20,8 +20,20 @@ Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python-larch (>= 0.21~), python-ttystatus (>= 0.8), python-paramiko, python-tracing (>= 0.2), python-cliapp (>= 0.14) -Description: online backup application - Obnam makes backups. +Description: online and disk-based backup application + Obnam makes backups. Backups can be stored on local hard disks, or online + via the SSH SFTP protocol. The backup server, if used, does not require any + special software, on top of SSH. . - This Debian package description is woefully inadequate. Please help - me improve it. + * Snapshot backups. Every generation looks like a complete snapshot, so you + don't need to care about full versus incremental backups, or rotate real + or virtual tapes. + * Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the backup + repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will be re-used, + even if it was in another file in an older backup generation. This way, you + don't need to worry about moving around large files, or modifying them. + * Encrypted backups, using GnuPG. + * Push or pull operation, depending on what you need. You can run Obnam on + the client, and push backups to the server, or on the server, and pull + from the client over SFTP. + |