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+===========
+Backupninja
+===========
+
+Backupninja allows you to coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you might use for making backups don't have their own configuration file format.
+
+Backupninja provides a centralized way to configure and schedule many different backup utilities. It allows for secure, remote, incremental filesytem backup (via rdiff-backup), compressed incremental data, backup system and hardware info, encrypted remote backups (via duplicity), safe backup of MySQL/PostgreSQL databases, subversion or trac repositories, burn CD/DVDs or create ISOs, incremental rsync with hardlinking.
+
+Sample pillars
+==============
+
+Backup client with ssh/rsync remote target
+
+    backupninja:
+      client:
+        enabled: true
+        target:
+          engine: rsync
+          host: 10.10.10.208
+          user: backupninja
+
+Backup client with s3 remote target
+
+    backupninja:
+      client:
+        enabled: true
+        target:
+          engine: s3
+          host: s3.domain.com
+          bucket: bucketname
+
+Backup server rsync/rdiff
+
+    backupninja:
+      server:
+        enabled: true
+        rdiff: true
+        keys:
+        - client1.domain.com
+
+Read more
+=========
+
+* https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/backupninja/wiki/Configuration
+* http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/351
+* http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/08/27/comprehensive-linux-backups-with-etckeeper-backupninja/
+* https://github.com/riseuplabs/puppet-backupninja
+* http://www.ushills.co.uk/2008/02/backup-with-backupninja.html