SABackup is a tool developed at the 318 labs to backup settings files for Mac OS X

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SABackup

SABackup is a tool used to back up and perform change control on the settings files for Mac OS X Server. SABackup can be used to generate autoserversetup, XML exports of settings and service restoration files.

Syntax: 
  

    sabackup --outputdir="/sabackups/" [options]
  

    sabackup --outputfile="/sabackup.dmg" [--services=afp,dns,ftp] [options] 
  

    sabackup --outputfile="/sabackup.plist" --nodmg [--service=dns] [options]
  

    sabackup --plist="/Library/Preferences/com.318.sabackup.plist"

  

  Flags:

  --plist= ## Path to a plist to read configuration information from. 

             This will override any other provided options!



  --outputfile= ## path to save exported plist or sparseimage file.

  --outputdir= ## path to directory for export. If multiple services are specified,

             they will be saved in a service-specific subdirectories under 'dir' 



  --usedmg    ## When specified, backups will be saved in the form of a sparseimage 

             file, which contain versioned backups of service configs. Defaults to

             true with the '--outputfile=' option and defaults to false with the

             '--outputdir' option. if '--useimage' is used with '--outputdir', then a

             disk image will be made based on the machine's hostname:

             "myhost.local_sabackups.sparseimage"



  --nodmg     ## When used in conjunction with the '--outputfile' option, output

             will be in the form of an XML plist of the specified services.



  --nosubdirs ## Disables the use of service-specific subdirectories



  --service=  ## used with '--outputfile' option to denote which service is 

             to be saved to the specific file.



  --services=  ## Used with --outputdir option to denote which services will be 

             backed up. Supported Services:

             "all" - akin to 'serveradmin settings all'

             "running" - backs up all running services

             "afp,smb"... (all services supported by 'serveradmin list')



  --usetimestamps  ## Forces written file to include a timestamp:

             myfile_201001102301.plist

             (Y+M+D++time) (2010/01/10 11:01 PM)

             Defaults to true with --outpitdir option

  --notimestamps  ## Omits timestamps from all written files. Defaults to true

             with --outputfile option



  -p,--prune  ## Prune backups (only qualifies with timestamped backups)

   --maxage=  ## Max age of a file (in days) before qualifying for pruning

   --minicopies=  ## Minimum number of copies to keep of a file, ovverrides maxage



  -f,--force  ## Do not prompt for verification when overwriting



  -v,--version  ## Print out version info.