# HG changeset patch # User Heiko Schlittermann (JUMPER) # Date 1304072403 -7200 # Node ID f9f9e2398ba59b02f492e1e785068b5f0a42f4f0 # Parent 40f277278d728409b8c09c0ad61dfbef9c70bfbf updated the man page with information about the restore process diff -r 40f277278d72 -r f9f9e2398ba5 bin/ftbackup --- a/bin/ftbackup Fri Apr 29 12:12:09 2011 +0200 +++ b/bin/ftbackup Fri Apr 29 12:20:03 2011 +0200 @@ -755,8 +755,6 @@ =back - - =head2 F<.netrc> You may miss the login information for the FTP server. Currently we rely on a valid @@ -764,6 +762,31 @@ machine ... login ... password ... + +=head1 RESTORE + +The files B writes to the FTP server are "selfextracting" +shell scripts. They contain a file header with some information. If you +download such a file and run it as a shell script, you will get the +instructions: + +=head3 EXAMPLE + + -- ftp -- until you have a local copy of the dump file + $ sh ./2010-04-04T13:00.0 + +or + + $ ftpipe --get ftp://backupserver/dumps/_/2010-04-04T13:00.0 | sh + +NOTE: B is a small tool for dumping FTP downloads into a pipe +without storing them in the local file system. See at +L. + +=head1 AUTHOR + +Heiko Schlittermann + =cut # vim:sts=4 sw=4 aw ai sm: