Backup-light is licensed under the GNU GPL v2, and is freely distributable under the terms of the GPL v2.

== Configuring Backup-light ==

	There are really only two steps to configuring backup-light, you need to tell it
where you want it to save all your backups to, it defaults to `/tmp`, and the
compression ratio that you want to use, it defaults to `bzip2`.  The second step
is not really needed as bzip2 provides good compression, but it is up to you.

As of Backup-light 0.4 the backup directory and the compression ratio selection have been moved to seperate config files under ~/.backup-light directory.

=== Changing the backup directory ===

	To change where backup-light default location all you need to do is change the text in the backuppath file under ~/.backup-light directory from /tmp to the path to the directory you want to save your backup-ups in.

=== Changing the compression ratio ===

	To change the default compression used all you need to do is change the text in the compression file under ~/.backup-light directory and change the text from bzip2 to gzip if you would like.

== Usage ==

Using backup-light is simple, to use with default settings just call up the script with no arguments.  Backup-light also offers many other features which include:
 *  Saving a backup outside of the default backup location, to do this just pass -o with the path to the desired location as an argument.
 *  Incremental backups, default but can also be preformed with -i passes as an argument
 *  Full backups which can be done with -f as an argument
 *  The ability to exclude a directory from the backup (-e directory name)
 *  Restore from a backup (-r)
 *  Recovers from a full backup then restores all the incremental backups up to the user specified point (-R) *Note:* This feature has been pushed back.
 *  Create a backup and burn it to a CD/DVD (-d)
 *  Restore from a multi disk (split) backup (-m)
 *  Don't update the timestamp (-n)
 *  Show the log containing dates and types of backups preformed (-l)
 *  Version display (-v)
 *  Usage and help (-h)
 *  Backup-light also creates and checks md5sums of the backup archives to check for corruption.  It will not restore from a backup that is corrupt!
