STOREBACKUPRECOVER(1)

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✨ STOREBACKUPRECOVER(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the internet, where we recover files like it's a rescue mission and we're the main character 💅

💖 NAME 💖

storeBackupRecover.pl — the girl that recovers files saved with storeBackup.pl. no cap, that's literally her whole job 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

        storeBackupRecover.pl -r restore [-b root] -t targetDir [--flat]
                [-o] [--tmpdir] [--noHardLinks] [-p number] [-v] [-n]
                [--cpIsGnu] [--noGnuCp] [-s]

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --restoreTree, -r — the file, or the (part of the) tree, you wanna restore. ⚠️ when you're restoring a single file, you have to use the file name as it lives in the backup — so yes, that includes the compression suffix, don't come for me 🥲
  • --backupRoot, -b — the root of the storeBackup tree. normally you don't need this one, she's just there if you do 🎀
  • --targetDir, -t — the directory where everything gets unpacked. the drop spot. the landing zone. 📦
  • --flat — do not create subdirectories. everything stays on one level, chaotic but valid 💀
  • --overwrite, -o — overwrite files that already exist. it's giving "no fear" 👑
  • --tmpdir, -T — the directory for the temporary file. the default is <$tmpdir> 🗂️
  • --noHardLinks — do not reconstruct the hard links in the restore tree. leave those links un-reunited, it's fine, they'll heal 🙈
  • --noRestoreParallel, -p — the max number of parallel programs unpacking at once; the default is 12. 🔥 reduce this number if you're restoring blocked files and the system has insufficient RAM — your computer is only human (well, only a computer) and she's tired 😭
  • --verbose, -v — print verbose messages. the receipts! the play-by-play! 📢
  • --noRestored, -n — print the number of restored dirs, hardlinks, symlinks, files, ... all the stats, all the trophies 🏆
  • --noGnuCp — overwrites information in the backup: it tells the world you do not have gnucp installed. (this one is only relevant for sockets, block and character devices, so don't stress if that's not your situation) 🧚
  • --createSparseFiles, -s — creates a sparse file from blocked files, but only if full blocks are filled with zeros. very "turning nothing into something", very iconic ✨

Copyright (c) 2002-2022 by Heinz-Josef Claes (see README). Published under the GNU General Public License v3 or any later version 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's running on perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-23, and it's filed under STOREBACKUPRECOVER(1). go forth and restore, you absolute legend 🫶💖✨

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