BACKUP-DRIVER(1)

✨ BACKUP-DRIVER ✨

okay bestie, so you're looking at the backup-driver page from the chiark-backup manual — section 1, command-line girlies only 💅 — and honestly? it's giving "small script, big job." let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

backup-driver — the literal entry point for cron or inittab to start backups 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

backup-driver [-test]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so backup-driver is the script you actually run when you want a backup to happen. no cap, that's its whole vibe.

it assumes it's being run from cron or inittab — like, that's the default assumption it's making about its own life — unless you pass it the test option. then it knows you're just a girl at a command line, not a scheduled daemon 🌈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -test — do not even try to use backup-bringup to change the runlevel. use this argument when you're running backup-driver from the command line, bestie, because you are not a cron job and you do not need to be out here messing with runlevels 💀

🦋 FILES 🦋

• /etc/chiark-backup/settings.pl — the configuration file for the whole entire of chiark-backup. yes, all of it. one file. iconic. ⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org> — but like, it may be used by anyone. so generous, we love that for us 🥹

💜 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. and listen — there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. like, none. zero. nada. 🙈

Debian, July 2003 — that's the source and the date of this whole thing, so if you're reading this in the year 3000 just know the tea is vintage, and this page is literally BACKUP-DRIVER(1) 💖 go forth and back up, bestie 🦋✨