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+# myback
+Myback utility
+
+this is cli utility for backing up mysql/mariadb databases in straigthforward manner and also uploading backups to AWS glacier. Features include:
+
+    - backup InnoDb databases online, MYISAM (not online) locally or remotely (it uses percona innobackupex utility)
+    - full/incremental backups
+    - list backups local/remote
+    - restore backups in one command
+    - dump database/databases from backups in one command
+    - upload backups to AWS glacier
+    - list backups in AWS glacier
+    - restore backups from AWS glacier in one command
+    - delete backups in AWS glacier
+
+Requirements:
+
+    - libapp-mtaws-perl (= 1.120-0vdebian1~v7~mt1) - most important dependency for glacier storage, hosted on github, also has deb/rpm repos
+    - percona-xtrabackup (>= 2.2.0) - most important utilities for whole project
+    - ssh server/client - important for remote backups
+    - perl-doc
+    - perl-doc
+    - perl (>= 5.8)
+    - libdatetime-perl
+    - liblog-log4perl-perl
+    - libmoosex-log-log4perl-perl
+    - libmoose-perl
+    - libyaml-tiny-perl
+    - libxml-libxml-perl
+    - libtext-simpletable-perl
+    - libdbd-sqlite3-perl
+    - libnamespace-autoclean-perl
+    - pigz - this is default compression utility used, gzip format but parallel execution, which a lot speeds up backups
+    - gzip
+    - bzip2
+    - mysql-server (>= 5.1) | mariadb-server (>= 5.5)
+    - mysql-client (>= 5.1) | mariadb-client (>= 5.5)