BACKUP-TAKEDOWN(1)

💖 BACKUP-TAKEDOWN(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the chiark-backup manual (section 1, the big girl commands) and honestly? it's giving "quietly essential little gremlin of a tool" energy. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

backup-takedown — bring some system services down for backups 🌙

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

backup-takedown [freq]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So backup-takedown is the girl who puts the system into a ✨chill mode✨ — it runs a reduced level of system services while backups are happening, because nobody wants the whole neighborhood partying while you're trying to do serious archival work, fr fr.

But listen, it doesn't just magically work on its own 💅. To actually use this command you gotta do the setup first:

• configure init by setting up runlevel 5 to provide the level of services you actually want, and
• make backup-driver run automatically on entering runlevel 5.

Do that and you're golden. Skip it and, well, nothing happens. no cap. 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• freq — this one's iconic because it decides how many warning messages get sent. It can be now, soon, or literally nothing at all, depending on the number of warning messages you desire. And yes, these three vibes correspond to the warnings.* files. the way that one tiny argument controls the whole drama of the alerts... obsessed. 😭

🦋 FILES 🦋

• /etc/chiark-backup/warnings.* — the files that specify what number and what frequency of warnings will be produced. ⭐
• /etc/chiark-backup/settings.pl — the configuration file for the whole of chiark-backup. it's the main character file, honestly. 👑

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manual page was written by Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org> — but it may be used by anyone. sharing is caring bestie 🫶

👑 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 like, say it with me:

There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 💀

(that's the dramatic legal way of saying "if it breaks, it breaks, bestie, we told you.")

mwah 💜 this lil page came from the Debian edition of the chiark-backup manual, dated July 2003, and it lives at section 1 as BACKUP-TAKEDOWN(1). take care of your services and slay your backups ✨💖