AA.CONF(5)

NAME
aa.conf - AutoArchive Configuration File

SYNOPSIS
~/.config/aa/aa.conf
/etc/aa/aa.conf

FILE FORMAT

There are two configuration files for AutoArchive -- system- and user-. System configuration file's location is: "/etc/aa/aa.conf". User configuration file's location is by default: "~/.config/aa/aa.conf". Options in the user file have higher priority. Note that some options can only be specified in the system file (see the list of the options below).

Structure is similar to the archive specification file -- options are divided into sections. A section begins with the section name enclosed in square brackets. Sections contains variables which represents the options.

Variables are written in the option-name = value form, one variable per line. Boolean values are written as yes and no. For path values, tilde (~) is expanded to the user's home. Form option-name = can be used to specify a variable with undefined value.

Lines beginning with # or ; are ignored and may be used for comments.

Two sections are valid: [General] and [Archive]. Both are optional although a configuration file without any section at all is considered invalid.

  Section [General]

Contains configuration options for the program itself, which do not alter the backup creation.

Options valid in the [General] section:

•   verbose

•   quiet

•   archive-specs-dir

•   user-config-file

    This option can not be specified in the user configuration file.

•   user-config-dir

    This option can not be specified in the user configuration file.

    See aa(1) for their description.

  Section [Archive]

This section contains configuration options which are specific to the backup creation.

Options valid in the [Archive] section:

•   archiver

•   compression-level

•   dest-dir

•   overwrite-at-start

•   incremental

•   restarting

•   restart-after-level

•   restart-after-age

•   full-restart-after-count

•   full-restart-after-age

•   max-restart-level-size

•   remove-obsolete-backups

•   keep-old-backups

•   number-of-old-backups

•   command-before-all-backups

•   command-after-all-backups

•   command-before-backup

•   command-after-backup

•   force-archiver

•   force-incremental

•   force-restarting

•   force-compression-level

•   force-dest-dir

•   force-overwrite-at-start

    See aa(1) for their description.

LICENSE

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

SEE ALSO

aa(1), aa_arch_spec(5)

COPYRIGHT
2003 - 2022, Robert Cernansky