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.TH BACKPY 1 "17 September 12"
.SH NAME
backpy \- Command line backup utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBbackpy\fP [ -h  | -b | -a ] [ -s ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBbackpy\fP is a simply command line backup utility written in python.
It creates incremental backups of the directories specified in its
configuration file.
To certain files and directories within the backup path, a regular
expression can be specified to exlude certain file and directory paths.
Incremental backups can be merged together to create a full backup
as well.
Backups are generally stored in tarballs using gzip-compression
.SS Options
.TP
\fB-h\fP
Display a short help message.
.TP
\fB-b\fP
Perform a backup including all directories specified in the configuration
file.
.TP
\fB-a \fIdirectory backup_path\fR
Append the specified directory and its backup path to the configuration
file.
.TP
\fB-s \fIregex\fR
Skips all file paths (directories and files) that match the specified
regular expression
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2012 Steffen Schneider
License Simplified BSD: BSD 2-clause license
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted under the terms of the BSD 2-Clause license.