updated the man page with information about the restore process
authorHeiko Schlittermann (JUMPER) <hs@schlittermann.de>
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:20:03 +0200
changeset 64 f9f9e2398ba5
parent 63 40f277278d72
child 65 6cdc52ab8a08
child 69 b2b500fa75ba
updated the man page with information about the restore process
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<ftbackup> 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<ftpipe> is a small tool for dumping FTP downloads into a pipe
+without storing them in the local file system. See at
+L<https://keller.schlittermann.de/hg/beta/ftpipe>.
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Heiko Schlittermann <hs@schlittermann.de>
+
 =cut
 
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