BACKUP-WHATSTHIS(1)

💾 BACKUP-WHATSTHIS(1) 💾

okay bestie so this is a page from the chiark-backup manual, and it's literally about the lil script backup-whatsthis — yes that's the actual name, nobody was being subtle 💀

✨ NAME ✨

backup-whatsthis — read an id off a tape and display it 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

backup-whatsthis [--list [n]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So backup-whatsthis is a simple lil script whose whole job is to display the TAPEID of the current tape, and if you want, it can optionally list its contents too. slay.

but like… lowkey? this script is a bit of a hack and may not be fully reliable 🙈 she's doing her best, ok??

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --list [n] — print the TAPEID and then list archive n (and the default is 0, bestie). also heads up: archives are numbered from zero, not one, so don't come for me when archive 0 is the first one 🫶

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/chiark-backup/settings.pl — the configuration file for the whole entire chiark-backup situation. it's giving main character config file, honestly 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so backup-whatsthis is currently hardwired to assume cpio type backups when it's listing. it could be trivially hardwired to assume zafio, or with slightly more effort it could be done properly :-> — the author's words, not mine, the :-> is theirs and it's iconic, periodt.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manual page was written by Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org> — but it may be used by anyone. generous king fr fr 💜

⭐ 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. no cap, zero warranty, read the source if you need the deets 📜

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came from the Debian crew, dated July 2003, and it's been living in the chiark-backup manual ever since — go read a tape, you got this 🎀✨