STOREBA...KBACKUP(1)

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💖 STOREBA...KBACKUP(1) — the storeBackupCheckBackup.pl glow-up ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for storeBackupCheckBackup.pl, a lil Perl script living in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and honestly? she's a whole vibe. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

storeBackupCheckBackup.pl — literally just checks whether a file in ur backup went missing or got corrupted 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

storeBackupCheckBackup.pl -c backupDir [-p number] [-i]
      [-w filePrefix] [--lastOfEachSeries]
      [--includeRenamedBackups] [-T tmpdir]
      [--logFile
       [--plusLogStdout] [--suppressTime] [-m maxFilelen]
       [[-n noOfOldFiles] | [--saveLogs]]

no cap, that's the whole shape of it. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: this tool exists to find files in the source that might have changed over time without the user's interaction or knowledge — think bit rot, the sneakiest little gremlin around. 😭

It calculates md5 sums from the files in the backup and compares them with md5 sums stored by storeBackup.pl. That way it'll recognize if a file in the backup is missing or currupted. 💀

heads up: it only checks plain files. not special files, not symbolic links. periodt.

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • --print — print the configuration parameters and then stop. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶
  • --checkDir, -c — the backup (or the top of the backups) you wanna check 👑
  • --backupRoot, -b — root of the storeBackup tree. normally you don't need it, so don't stress 💅
  • --verbose, -v — generate statistics. numbers! stats! iconic 📊
  • --parJobs, -p — number of parallel jobs. default = chosen automatically, because she's independent like that ✨
  • --lastOfEachSeries — only check the last backup of each series found, keep it fresh 🌸
  • --includeRenamedBackups, -i — include renamed backups into the check. renamed backups must follow the convention <backupDir>-<something> 🎀
  • --tmpdir, -T — directory for temporary files. default is </tmp> 🧚
  • --wrongFileTables, -w — write filenames with detected faults in regular files, for later bug fixing (not automated, bestie, you gotta do that part urself 🙈). the parameter to this option is a file prefix.

eg. if the file prefix is /tmp/bugsB-, the following files are generated:

/tmp/bugsB-files.missing.txt
/tmp/bugsB-md5sums.missing.txt
/tmp/bugsB-md5sums.wrong.txt

if you change option tmpdir to something else, this value will be used here instead of /tmp 💜

  • --logFile, -l — logFile. Default: stdout 📝
  • --plusLogStdout — if you specify a log file with --logFile you can additionally print the output to STDOUT with this flag. double the output, double the fun ✨
  • --suppressTime — suppress output of time in logfile. sometimes u just don't want the timestamps, we get it 🕰️
  • --maxFilelen, -m — maximal length of log file. default = 1e6 🔥
  • --noOfOldFiles, -n — number of old log files. default = 5 🗂️
  • --saveLogs — save log files with date and time instead of deleting the old (with [-noOfOldFiles]). hoarder behavior, and honestly? valid 💖
  • --compressWith — compress saved log files (e.g. with 'gzip -9'). default is 'bzip2' 🗜️

Copyright (c) 2008-2022 by Heinz-Josef Claes (see README) Published under the GNU General Public License v3 or any later version. respect the author, bestie, he ate 📜✨

and that's a wrap on the storeBackupCheckBackup.pl page, brought to you by perl v5.40.1 and dated 2026-05-23 🌟 stay un-corrupted, mwah 💋🦋

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