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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)