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Author SHA1 Message Date
Dan Helfman
b15c9b7dab Add missing "how to" text. 2020-01-24 21:02:56 -08:00
Dan Helfman
2405e97c38 Backup to a removable drive or intermittent server via "soft failure" feature (#284). 2020-01-24 20:52:48 -08:00
Dan Helfman
f66fd1caaa Customize Healthchecks log level via borgmatic "--monitoring-verbosity" flag (#277). 2020-01-22 15:10:47 -08:00
Dan Helfman
39550a7fe9 Add ~/.config/borgmatic.d as another configuration directory default (#274). 2020-01-22 09:26:58 -08:00
Dan Helfman
5afe0e3d63 Disable colored output when "--json" flag is used, so as to produce valid JSON ouput (#276). 2020-01-04 15:50:41 -08:00
Dan Helfman
c52f82f9ce Documentation: Enable and start borgmatic with a single systemctl command. 2020-01-04 13:37:56 -08:00
Dan Helfman
5b1beda82b Add logrotate documentation suggestion. 2019-12-31 15:06:53 -08:00
Dan Helfman
911668f0c8 Only trigger "on_error" hooks and monitoring failures for "prune", "create", and "check" actions, and not for other actions (#270). 2019-12-20 13:58:02 -08:00
Dan Helfman
f787dfe809 Override particular configuration options from the command-line via "--override" flag (#268). 2019-12-17 11:46:27 -08:00
Dan Helfman
afaabd14a8 Clarify documentation on how /etc/borgmatic.d/ configuration files are interpreted. 2019-12-13 11:42:17 -08:00
Dan Helfman
e009bfeaa2 Update Healthchecks/Cronitor/Cronhub monitoring integrations to fire for "check" and "prune" actions, not just "create" (#249). 2019-12-12 22:54:45 -08:00
Dan Helfman
464ff2fe96 Run end-to-end tests on developer machines with Docker Compose for approximate parity with continuous integration tests. 2019-12-11 16:43:01 -08:00
Dan Helfman
8660af745e Optionally change the internal database dump path via "borgmatic_source_directory" option in location configuration section (#259). 2019-12-10 16:04:34 -08:00
Dan Helfman
df2be9620b Mount whole repositories via "borgmatic mount" without any "--archive" flag (#253). 2019-12-06 15:58:54 -08:00
Dan Helfman
375036e409 Support for mounting an archive as a FUSE filesystem via "borgmatic mount" action, and unmounting via "borgmatic umount" (#123). 2019-11-25 14:56:20 -08:00
Dan Helfman
78ff734e6c Add note about error logs only flowing to Healthchecks for the "create" action. 2019-11-17 19:10:11 -08:00
Dan Helfman
2cc743cf47 With "borgmatic check", consider Borg warnings as errors (#247). 2019-11-17 19:06:28 -08:00
Dan Helfman
50f62d73b7 When using the Healthchecks monitoring hook, include borgmatic logs in the payloads for completion and failure pings (#241). 2019-11-17 16:54:27 -08:00
Dan Helfman
c2276b18c5 Add troubleshooting documentation for MySQL lock table errors (#244). 2019-11-14 10:33:47 -08:00
Dan Helfman
9ee6151999 Add link to unofficial Fedora package of borgmatic that's more up-to-date. 2019-11-13 14:59:49 -08:00
Dan Helfman
4c38810a32 Add note about rsyslog rate limiting. 2019-11-12 12:32:32 -08:00
Dan Helfman
bf0d38ff2a Update docs about MySQL/MariaDB database dumps and restores (#228). 2019-11-12 11:59:01 -08:00
Dan Helfman
e4f0a336c2 Fix installation path in docs. 2019-11-07 11:09:27 -08:00
Dan Helfman
68459c6795 Add note about setting PATH environment variable when installing borgmatic. 2019-11-07 11:05:41 -08:00
Dan Helfman
17fda7281a Monitor backups with Cronhub hook integration. Fix Healthchecks/Cronitor hooks to respect dry run. 2019-11-07 10:08:44 -08:00
Dan Helfman
31d3bc9bd8 In documentation, clarify when Healthchecks/Cronitor hooks fire in relation to other hooks (#238). 2019-11-06 09:44:46 -08:00
Dan Helfman
2115eeb6a2 Upgrade your borgmatic configuration to get new options and comments via "generate-borgmatic-config --source" (#239). 2019-11-06 09:31:00 -08:00
Dan Helfman
e6d8c736d0 Documentation feedback: Don't hard-code Python 3.7 for Black. 2019-11-03 14:08:19 -08:00
Dan Helfman
505bb778fa Fix logging docs typo. 2019-11-02 12:54:03 -07:00
Dan Helfman
a9104ed090 Handle log file error more consistently with other error. Add --log-file-verbosity flag. Add docs. 2019-11-02 11:23:18 -07:00
Dan Helfman
8fd46b8c70 Monitor backups with Cronitor hook integration. 2019-11-01 11:33:15 -07:00
Dan Helfman
e3dd545345 Extract files to a particular directory via "borgmatic extract --destination" flag. Also rename "--restore-path" to "--path" to reduce confusion. 2019-11-01 10:00:26 -07:00
Dan Helfman
bd3c51fc5a Documentation for database restores (#229). 2019-10-31 21:45:47 -07:00
Dan Helfman
ca23c3b8b3 Remove unnecessary word from documentation. 2019-10-30 10:55:40 -07:00
Dan Helfman
74607fdd43 Documentation on how to develop borgmatic's documentation. 2019-10-30 10:54:42 -07:00
Dan Helfman
b53684a8f0 Fix incorrect link to hooks documentation. 2019-10-29 09:53:45 -07:00
Dan Helfman
f055f5dea8 Clarify borgmatic restore example with no leading slash. 2019-10-28 12:00:54 -07:00
Dan Helfman
5e3c2da79c Database dump hooks documentation (#225). 2019-10-23 15:35:37 -07:00
Dan Helfman
c12c47cace Fix "borgmatic list --successful" with a slightly better heuristic for listing successful (non-checkpoint) archives. 2019-10-16 10:24:58 -07:00
Dan Helfman
d6aaab8a09 Remove parentheses from docs sentence. 2019-10-15 13:02:54 -07:00
Dan Helfman
128ebf04ce Dead man's switch via healthchecks.io integration (#223) + new monitoring documentation. 2019-10-15 10:49:14 -07:00
Dan Helfman
7b3b28616d Add "borgmatic list --successful" flag to only list successful (non-checkpoint) archives (#86). 2019-10-13 15:58:11 -07:00
Dan Helfman
59e1cac92c Correct Arch Linux borgmatic package link. 2019-10-11 14:35:07 -07:00
Dan Helfman
b1f0287fdb Add documentation link to community AUR (Arch Linux) borgmatic package. 2019-10-11 13:35:57 -07:00
Dan Helfman
99c35d4077 "flags" -> "actions" a few places in the docs. 2019-10-11 10:46:30 -07:00
Dan Helfman
07b9ff61f2 Remove documentation link to the AUR (Arch Linux) borgmatic package, which apparently has been deleted. 2019-10-11 10:42:19 -07:00
Dan Helfman
1d37b14356 More detailed error alerting via runtime context available in "on_error" hook (#174). 2019-10-01 12:23:16 -07:00
Dan Helfman
e14ebee4e0 User-defined hooks for global setup or cleanup that run before/after all actions. (#192). 2019-09-28 16:18:10 -07:00
Dan Helfman
386979ebb4 Mention --stats option in documentation. 2019-09-23 13:13:34 -07:00
Dan Helfman
d959fdbf8d Document new "check --only" command-line flag. 2019-09-19 11:50:29 -07:00
Daniel M. Capella
9a5117db14
Consistently point to stable Borg docs 2019-09-14 17:30:28 -04:00
Dan Helfman
e25f2c4e6c Clarify documentation/schema about on_error hook running if there's an error in another hook (#202). 2019-07-19 09:25:01 -07:00
Dan Helfman
7ad8f9ac6f Link to borgmatic-binary installation method. 2019-07-13 15:40:26 -07:00
Dan Helfman
2add3ff7ad Fix redirect. 2019-07-05 09:19:51 -07:00
Dan Helfman
0602ca1862 Add how-to redirect. Fix capitalization. 2019-07-05 09:03:08 -07:00
Dan Helfman
e973802fc1 Iterate on how-to document name wording. 2019-07-05 08:57:25 -07:00
Dan Helfman
2bdf6dfd70 Merge branch 'master' of ssh://projects.torsion.org:3022/witten/borgmatic 2019-07-05 08:52:06 -07:00
duncanbetts
5587f48bda Update 'docs/how-to/run-preparation-steps-before-backups.md' 2019-07-05 14:39:21 +00:00
Dan Helfman
fe39453598 Change example filename to be more descriptive. 2019-06-30 17:23:09 -07:00
Dan Helfman
9c75063c05 Unbreak console snippet in docs. 2019-06-30 17:09:34 -07:00
Dan Helfman
5cf2ef1732 Add note to documentation about using spaces instead of tabs for indentation, as YAML does not allow tabs (#199). 2019-06-30 16:58:01 -07:00
Dan Helfman
90595e9c18 Only log to syslog when run from a non-interactive console (e.g. a cron job). Related to #197. 2019-06-27 14:41:21 -07:00
Dan Helfman
90925c9428 Provide tips about old-style flags for those on older versions. 2019-06-23 16:42:23 -07:00
Dan Helfman
acd6772148 Update documentation to refer to dashless action sub-commands. 2019-06-22 22:09:50 -07:00
Dan Helfman
74ac148747 Disable console color via "color" option in borgmatic configuration output section (#191). 2019-06-19 20:48:54 -07:00
Dan Helfman
de94001508 Change default syslog verbosity to show errors only. 2019-06-16 21:57:14 -07:00
Dan Helfman
6c136ebbf1 Fix for unclear error message for invalid YAML merge include (#196). 2019-06-16 21:33:40 -07:00
Dan Helfman
fa293828df Run hooks such that their output goes to syslog as well as console. 2019-06-12 13:09:04 -07:00
Dan Helfman
7c01b69498 Details on where to view logs. 2019-06-11 21:35:43 -07:00
Dan Helfman
4f0d3bf4ed Add docs/default about systemd journald rate limiting. 2019-06-11 17:03:40 -07:00
Dan Helfman
9a5e7a3abb Successfully convert Borg output to Python logging entries. 2019-06-11 16:42:04 -07:00
Dan Helfman
cdbd4c55e8 Fix 404 links harder. 2019-06-01 13:23:48 -07:00
Dan Helfman
2374410891 Fix 404 documentation links by switching to absolute links. 2019-06-01 13:02:39 -07:00
Dan Helfman
d2c46e91fe Add rsync.net to hosting providers; includ random link rotation. 2019-05-29 15:35:04 -07:00
Dan Helfman
8f882ea3ea Switch to more standard "utm_source" for hosting provider link. 2019-05-18 21:33:39 -07:00
Dan Helfman
7a2bcc96bb Add Borg/borgmatic hosting providers to documentation. 2019-05-18 20:59:50 -07:00
Dan Helfman
8b41e58e1f Mention isort import ordering in documentation. 2019-05-16 12:06:55 -07:00
Dan Helfman
9f6407ada6 Mention continuous integration badge in NEWS. 2019-05-13 14:54:24 -07:00
Luke Murphy
4010a2ed77
Add note about Drone CI to contributing docs 2019-05-13 23:43:11 +02:00
Dan Helfman
31dc903877 Integrate colorama for colored output. 2019-05-13 19:50:36 +00:00
Luke Murphy
0320d449ec
Add documentation about colorama 2019-05-13 13:40:17 +02:00
Luke Murphy
f9dce8b2d3
Recommend user installs when upgrading 2019-05-13 13:18:59 +02:00
Luke Murphy
15cb6270ef
Recommend a tox user install for developing 2019-05-13 13:18:45 +02:00
Luke Murphy
ed14fdbac9
Recommend root user package install
This can do bad things to a system Python install. So, we try to
mitigate this by recommending a root user user site installation.
2019-05-13 13:18:37 +02:00
Dan Helfman
8650a15db1 Document validate-borgmatic-config and add a few tests. 2019-05-11 14:05:16 -07:00
Dan Helfman
576377e2b2 Clarify differences between Docker images. 2019-03-16 15:04:48 -07:00
Dan Helfman
6ff1867312 Configuration files includes and merging (#148). 2019-03-06 12:06:27 -08:00
Dan Helfman
5a5b6491ac Add note about uncommenting section names. 2019-03-04 15:15:49 -08:00
Dan Helfman
26071de2e7 Update extraction docs. 2019-02-18 22:43:32 -08:00
Dan Helfman
d1b29e82da borgmatic command-line reference. 2019-02-04 22:27:40 -08:00
Dan Helfman
290e969a22 Include a sample borgmatic configuration file in the documentation (#119). 2019-02-04 22:12:33 -08:00
Dan Helfman
18ae91ea6e Strike some unnecessary words from docs. 2019-02-04 20:58:27 -08:00
Dan Helfman
0bce77a2ac Distribute troubleshooting among relevant how-to guides. 2019-02-04 20:53:47 -08:00
Dan Helfman
19155607af Include link to development how-to. 2019-02-03 22:42:33 -08:00
Dan Helfman
f357c37e2c Fix/remove some documentation links. 2019-02-03 22:35:38 -08:00
Dan Helfman
2980c14728 Fix README links on GitHub. 2019-02-03 22:26:39 -08:00
Dan Helfman
7e0e00d45d Refactor documentation into multiple separate pages for clarity and findability. 2019-02-03 22:20:59 -08:00