README for seivot
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Seivot is a program for benchmarking backup software. It was written
for developing Obnam, but it should be possible to adapt it to also
support other on-disk backup solutions, such as rsync or rdiff-backup.

Example:

    ./seivot --log=foo.log --log-level=debug \
        --initial-data=1m --incremental-data=1m --generations=2 \
        --output=foo.seivot

Use the --use-sftp-root and --use-sftp-repository options to simulate 
backups over a network. This happens over localhost, so it's hardly a 
realistic simulation, but it at least measures the overhead of using 
SFTP over direct file access. You need to have ssh configured for 
localhost access, either via a passwordless key or ssh-agent.

Legalese
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Copyright (C) 2008-2011  Lars Wirzenius, Richard Braakman

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

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/>.
