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| author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2011-05-16 13:50:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2011-05-16 13:50:02 +0100 |
| commit | 48c64951cdb2a8bed2082c7ba13ba6970dec6f16 (patch) | |
| tree | 39209ebd750c50b26e5216cc88b9448d686bcf2a /README | |
| parent | 3cc9a2911cc701a9c3a94c27599eee4c5c862af8 (diff) | |
| download | seivot-48c64951cdb2a8bed2082c7ba13ba6970dec6f16.tar.gz | |
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@@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ -Seivot is a program for benchmarking backup software. +README for seivot +----------------- + +Seivot is a program for benchmarking backup software. It was written +for developing Obnam, but it should be possible to adapt it to also +support other on-disk backup solutions, such as rsync or rdiff-backup. + +Example: + + ./seivot --log=foo.log --log-level=debug \ + --initial-data=1m --incremental-data=1m --generations=2 \ + --output=foo.seivot + +Use the --use-sftp option to simulate backups over a network. This happens +over localhost, so it's hardly a realistic simulation, but it at least +measures the overhead of using SFTP over direct file access. + +Legalese +-------- Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Lars Wirzenius, Richard Braakman |