BACKUPCHECKER(1)

📦 version 1.9, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 BACKUPCHECKER 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about backupchecker — a fully automated backup checker and honestly? she's the friend who double-checks that you actually locked the door. the manual page for her lives in section 1, and this is the whole thing, no skips, no cuts. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

backupchecker — fully automated backup checker 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

backupchecker [-c DIR] [-l FILE] [-G] ARG1 ARG2

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

ok so here's the vibe: Backup Checker parses your backups — archives and file trees, both — and runs a bunch of different checks on them, all so you can verify your backup integrity and the content that comes with it. it's giving "trust but verify" but make it automated. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -c DIR, --configpath DIR — the path to the configurations 🗂️
  • -C DIR, --output-conf-dir DIR — the directory to store the configuration file 📁
  • -d DELIMITER, --delimiter DELIMITER — delimiter of the fields for the list of files ✂️
  • -E FILE, --exceptions-file FILE — delimiter of the fields for the list of files (yes bestie, that is literally what the manpage says for this one, i'm just the messenger 🙈)
  • -g, --gen-list — generate a list of files inside a backup 📝
  • -G, --gen-full — generate the configuration file and the list of files for the backup ✨
  • -H, --hashes — generate the hash sum of each encountered file in the backup 🔐
  • --hashtype HASHTYPE — the type of the hash sum to use while generating configurations for the archive 🧮
  • -l FILE, --log FILE — the log file 📓
  • -L DIR, --output-list-dir DIR — the directory to store the list of files inside an archive or tree 🌳
  • -n NAME, --configuration-name NAME — the name to use to name the .conf and .list generated by the -g or -G options (default is the name of the archive) 🏷️
  • -O DIR, --output-list-and-conf-dir DIR — the directory to store the configuration file and the list of files inside an archive or tree 💫
  • -v, --version — the version of Backup Checker 👀

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

generate the list of files (.conf and .list files) and their attributes inside a backup:

$ backupchecker -G /backups/monthly-backup.tar.gz

launch Backup Checker indicating your configuration directory and your log file:

$ backupchecker -c /etc/brebis/ -l /var/log/brebis.log

verify a remote backup by FTP:

$ wget --quiet -O - ftp://user:pass@server/backup.tar.gz | backupchecker
-c /etc/brebis/ -l /var/log/brebis.log

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Carl Chenet <chaica@backupchecker.com[]> — the main character who made all this happen 👑

🧚 RESSOURCES 🧚

Backup Checkup project homepage :

https://github.com/backupchecker/backupchecker 🔗

⭐ LICENSE ⭐

Copyright © 2015-2017 Carl Chenet <chaica@backupchecker.com> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. 📜

no cap, that warranty disclaimer is doing the most, but it is what it is and we respect the paperwork bestie 💀

and that's the whole page, start to finish, no notes. this one's dated 02/27/2015, and it's the BACKUPCHECKER(1) page, so if you ever need to cite her, that's the receipt. slay, stay backed up, mwah 💖🫶✨

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