Storages

What is a storage ?

Storages are one of the core concept of the application. A storage is a place where backup are store. It can be the filesystem an ssh server or anything that fits your need.

How to create a storage ?

All the storages are declared in the configuration file.
Each storage MUST have at least:

• A name: The name of the storage must be unique and must be a valid bash token name [a-zA-Z][a-ZA-Z0-9_]*
• A type: The type of the storage

Minimalist storage

IB_STORAGE_name_TYPE="fs"

Notice that the name of the storage is used in the variable name.
Don't forget to add the storage name in the IB_STORAGES variable See Configuration.

Built-in storage types

• Filesystem
• SSH
• Swift