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Backup Buddy INSTALL

Requirements:

        PHP 4.x 
        rsync 2.5.7 or later, with RSA/DSA keys auto login to foreign host.

1. cp bbbackup-perform.php /usr/local/bin
2. cp etc_bbuddy.conf /etc/bbuddy.conf
3. Edit /etc/bbuddy.conf
   1. define the vault. This is where your backups will go.
   2. define the accounts. Make a directory in vault with the same name as the accounts. Read/set the other options as you see fit.
4. In each account directory, cp account_bbuddy.conf bbuddy.conf
5. Edit bbuddy.conf in each account directory. Define values as you see fit.

6a) (Deprecated) You can run "bbbackup-perform.php -all" to get all accounts you defined above.

6b) if you want to run an individual account, run "bbbackup-perform.php account", where account is the name of the account you wish to back up singly.

6c) You can perform backups to a specific group of accounts. EG: "bbbackup-perform.php groupservers " where "groupservers" is what you identified in /etc/bbuddy.conf.

You can run multiple instances of bbbackup-perform so long as the same account or groupname isn't called twice. Make sure you don't run an account and a group containing that account at the same time - this can cause thrashing and can make BackupBuddy to "get stuck". If you wish to run different instances at the same time, NEVER USE -all (which is now deprecated)

7) Run via crontab to make automatic.

-Ben