BACKUP-CHECKALLUSED(1)

✨ NAME ✨

backup-checkallused — bestie, this is the vibe check for your chiark-backup config 🎀

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

backup-checkallused

That's it. No flags, no args, no drama. She takes zero notes. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so backup-checkallused literally just does a check of the configuration files. That's her whole job. That's her moment. ✨

She'll give you a cryptic summary of the configuration (iykyk, it's giving riddle-core, it's fine) and then print configuration ok. If she doesn't print that? Bestie. Fix your config files :-> 💀

But wait, there's a lil prerequisite — you have to create the file:

/var/lib/chiark-backup/last-tape

and it needs to contain the id of a tape. This helps backup-checkallused know where to start iterating over tapes. Any tapeid will do, no cap. 🫶

But don't make it the same as the one you want to back up to first. Not me warning you about the one thing that will absolutely ruin your day 🙈

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• None — she needs nothing from you. She's lowkey self-sufficient like that. 💖

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/chiark-backup/settings.pl — Configuration file for the whole of chiark-backup. The main character file fr fr. ⭐

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This Manual page was written by Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org> — but it may be used by anyone. Sharing is caring, periodt. 🦋

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 1997-1998,2000-2001 Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Copyright (C) 1999 Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Read that again bestie — no warranty, not even the tiny hypothetical one. 🫠

okay that's the whole page, love u, bye 💖✨🌸

This one came from the Debian fam, dated July 2003, and it's page BACKUP-CHECKALLUSED(1) — iconic, historic, still eating. 🎀