Contents

• Super Quick Start
  • storeBackup's Top Features
  • Why should you back up your files?
  
  
• Installation
• Getting Started
• What's new?
  • What's new in storeBackup version 3.3.1
  • What's new in storeBackup version 3.3
  
  
• The Idea behind it
  • abstract
  • Another Backup Tool? / Roots of storeBackup
  • What would be an ideal Backup Tool?
  • How storeBackup works
    • Illustration
    • Reducing Disk Space
    • Performance
    • Example of a Run
  
  
• Components / Programs to use
  • Supported Platforms and Tips
  • storeBackup.pl
    • storeBackup.pl Options
  • storeBackupUpdateBackup.pl
  • storeBackupRecover.pl
  • storeBackupVersions.pl
  • storeBackupSearch.pl
  • storeBackupSetupIsolatedMode.pl
  • storeBackupMergeIsolatedBackup.pl
  • storeBackupls.pl
  • storeBackupDel.pl
  • storeBackupMount.pl
  • storeBackupCheckBackup.pl
  • storeBackupCheckSource.pl
  • storeBackup_du.pl
  • storeBackupConvertBackup.pl
  • linkToDirs.pl
  • llt
  • multitail.pl
  
  
• General concepts
  • configuration file and command line
    • configuration file
    • command line
    • bringing both together
  • Deletion of old Backups
  • Defining rules
    • How to define if a file should be compressed
  • Saving Image Files / raw Devices / Blocked Files
  • using option lateLinks
  • isolated mode / offline backups
    • You can use isolated backup in the following way:
    • setting up isolated mode
  • replication of backups
    • Quick start using storeBackup's Replication Wizard
    • Why copying backups is not a substitute for replication functionality
    • Basic concepts to know before using storeBackup's replication
    • Understanding storeBackup's Replication Wizard via an example
    • A simple replication example without the Replication Wizard
    • How storeBackup's replication works
  • special files generated and used by storeBackup
  • configuring NFS
  • what's an inode
  • Statistical Output of storeBackup.pl
  • Monitoring
  • Limitations
  
  
• How to use storeBackup (Examples)
  • Some Information in the Beginning
  • Example 1, very simple backup
  • Example 2, backup of multiple directories
  • Example 3, make a big backup once a week, a small every day
  • Example 4, backup from different machines, share data
  • Example 5, different keepTimes for some directories
  • Example 6, using lateLinks
  
  
• FAQ, Frequently asked Questions
• Contributors
• Change Log
• License