It's using a sample configuration file and with that you can easily backup:
- local directories - remote directories - subversion repositories - mysql databases
And it's fairly easy to add any functionnality to it (the script is like 400 lines long).
You can get a more complete description of what it does online at the following address:
http://rbackup.lescigales.org/ . You will see also actual samples of configuration.
I made it for my needs with my webhost and its working pretty fine so far. Anyway I'm always looking
for some input and feedback, so feel free to tell me :)
And big thanks to the one (or ones!) who made rdiff-backup, it's such a diskspace saver ! Thank you