STOREBA...TEDMODE(1)

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✨ storeBackupSetupIsolatedMode.pl ✨

okay bestie, so this is a section 1 manual page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation era — and it's literally the glow-up tool for your backups 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

storeBackupSetupIsolatedMode.pl — copy the last storeBackup meta data of a series to, like, a stick 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ngl this script copies the meta data of a backup over to another filesystem (think: a memory stick, iconic 💅) and it optionally generates a customised version of the storeBackup configuration file.

The way that this is useful: you can generate incremental backup while you're travelling ✈️ and then integrate those back into the full backup via storeBackupMergeIsolatedBackup.pl and storeBackupUpdateBackup.pl. periodt.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

based on configuration file:

storeBackupSetupIsolatedMode.pl -f configFile -t targetDir
                            [-S series] [-g newConfigFile]
                            [-e explicitBackup] [-v] [-F]

no configuration file:

storeBackupSetupIsolatedMode.pl -b backupDir -t targetDir
                            [-S series] [-e explicitBackup] [-v] [-F]

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • --configFile, -f — the (original, non-isolated mode) configuration file to copy for isolated mode. it's also used to get the value for backupDir and series. bonus: you can also use an already generated configuration file to repeat the setup with the same configuration as in the past 💫
  • --targetDir, -t — the directory where to write the new configuration file for isolated mode. also, the series directory is created in targetDir, and the meta data from the last backup in backupDir gets copied to targetDir/series 🍓
  • --generate, -g — the (path and) file name of the configuration file to generate. the default is isolate-<name specified at --configFile> in the same directory as configFile ✨
  • --backupDir, -b — the backup directory from which meta data have to be copied, eg. on a usb stick. if more than one series exists in this backup, you have to specify option series also 🙈
  • --series, -S — the series of which meta data have to be copied to targetDir. has to be specified if more than one series exist in backupDir
  • --explicitBackup, -e — explicit Backup which has to be copied. the default is the last backup of the specified series 💜
  • --verbose, -v — generate verbose messages 🗣️
  • --force, -F — force usage of last backup (with lateLinks), even it if has not been completed with storeBackupUpdateBackup.pl
⚠️ bestie listen — -F is the "I know what I'm doing" button. it will use that last backup even when it has not been completed with storeBackupUpdateBackup.pl. that's a real caveat, not a cute one. use with intention 💀

Copyright (c) 2012-2022 by Heinz-Josef Claes (see README). Published under the GNU General Public License v3 or any later version 🌈

that's the whole page, no cap 🫶 this one's serving perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-23 — go be the main character of your backup strategy, ily 💅👑

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