Introduction to Holland
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Holland is an Open Source backup framework originally developed by Rackspace
and written in Python. Its goal is to help facilitate backing up databases
with greater configurability, consistency, and ease. Holland currently
focuses on MySQL, however future development will include other database
platforms and even non-database related applications. Because of its
plugin structure, Holland can be used to backup anything you want by
whatever means you want.

Python2 support has been removed as of holland 1.2.0

Dependencies
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The core Holland framework has the following dependencies (available on any
remotely modern Linux distribution):

* Python >= 3.6
* pkg_resources
* python-setuptools
* ConfigParser

MySQL based plugins additionally require the MySQLdb python connector:

* pyMySQL

Note that other plugins may have additional dependency requirements.
