oxigraph-backup(1)

💾 oxigraph-backup(1) — the backup girlies' manual 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for oxigraph-backup, living in the General Commands Manual section of the oxigraph fam. it makes backups. that's the whole vibe. let's go 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

oxigraph-backup — Create a database backup into a target directory 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

oxigraph backup <-l|--location> <-d|--destination> [-h|--help]

like… that's it. two required things, one optional little guy. slay.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Create a database backup into a target directory. 💖

and here's the iconic part: after its creation, the backup is usable as a separated Oxigraph database and operates independently of the original database. no strings attached, no situationship, it's fully its own main character. ✨

now if the target directory is in the same file system as the current database, the database content will not be fully copied — instead, hard links will be used to point to the original database's immutable snapshots. this is lowkey genius because it allows cheap regular backups. no cap. 💅

🚨 but bestie listen — if you want to move your data to another RDF storage system, you should use the dump operation instead. this is not that. don't do that with this. fr fr. 😭

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -l, --location <LOCATION> — Directory in which Oxigraph data are persisted 📁 like where your actual database is chillin'.
• -d, --destination <DESTINATION> — Directory in which the backup will be written 🎀 where the copy (or the hard-link magic) lands.
• -h, --help — Print help (see a summary with -h) 🙈 yep, that's literally what it says.

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and that's the whole page, babe. go forth and back up your data responsibly. your future self is obsessed with you for this. 💜

this little manual comes courtesy of the backup source, and it's page oxigraph-backup(1) in the General Commands Manual — there's no date listed on this one, so consider it timeless, like you. 💖✨🎀🦋