BACKUP-LOADED(1)

💖 BACKUP-LOADED 💖

okay bestie, we're doing chiark-backup section 1 energy today, and this little cutie is literally the tape-naming fairy of the whole system ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

backup-loaded — the way you tell the chiark-backup system what to do with a brand-new, never-been-loved tape 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

backup-loaded [TAPEID]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: backup-loaded is the girl who walks up to the scripts and goes "hey, this currently unlabelled tape? treat it as tape X, mkay?" 💅

like, for example:

backup-loaded b3

and boom, it treats that tape as tape b3. iconic behaviour honestly.

🚨 NB bestie, this is important: this will NOT override the TAPEID label that's already written on the tape. it's purely for use with previously unused tapes. don't come for me, it's just the rules 😭

also, this whole thing applies only to the next time the backup scripts are invoked. one shot. main character energy, no encore. 👑

and you can just say:

backup-loaded

all on its own with nothing else, to go back to the default behaviour. and what's the default, you ask? the default is to fail if the tape has no TAPEID. yeah. it just gives up. periodt. 💀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• TAPEID — treat the tape as label TAPEID, simple as that, slay 💖

🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/chiark-backup/settings.pl — the configuration file for the whole entire chiark-backup situation. the settings girlie. the control room. obsessed 🫶

👑 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. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. like, none. zero. not a crumb. 😭

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🧚 it's from Debian, dated July 2003, and it's page BACKUP-LOADED(1) of the manual — go forth and label your tapes, you absolute legend 🌸🦋💖