STOREBA...VERSIONS(1)

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version 3.5.2 · 3 versions
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💖 storeBackupVersions.pl 💖

okay bestie, so this is the little perl script that goes digging through your storeBackup.pl backups to find all the different versions of a file you saved. it's the manual page for it (User Contributed Perl Documentation, section 1) and yes we're gonna read the whole thing together, no skipping 💅

✨ NAME ✨

storeBackupVersions.pl — locates different versions of a file saved with storeBackup.pl.

like literally its whole job is finding every version of one file across your backups. that's it. that's the gig. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

storeBackupVersions.pl -f file [-b root]  [-v]
 [-l [-a | [-s] [-u] [-g] [-M] [-c] [-m]]]

read it like a little recipe: you need -f file, everything else is optional garnish ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • --file, -f — the file name. this is the name in the backup, and heads up, it probably carries the suffix from compression, so don't come for her when file.gz is what you have to type 🙈
  • --backupRoot -b — the root of the storeBackup tree. normally you don't need it, she figures it out herself, she's smart like that 💜
  • --verbose, -v — print verbose messages. more talking. more info. more yapping, but the useful kind 🔥
  • --locateSame, -l — locate the same file with other names. so if that file is out here living a double life under a different name, this finds it 👑
  • --showAll, -A — same as: [-s -u -g -M -c -m]. it's the "give me everything" button, main character energy fr fr
  • --size, -s — show size (human readable) of the source file. human readable!! no one wants raw bytes at 3am 💀
  • --uid, -u — show uid of the source file
  • --gid, -g — show gid of the source file
  • --mode, -M — show permissions of the source file
  • --ctime, -c — show creation time of the source file
  • --mtime, -m — show modify time of the source file
  • --atime, -a — show access time of the source file
⚠️ lowkey important: it does not always work correctly when a file is saved blocked and non-blocked in different backups. in those cases, use option --locateSame. no cap, just do it 🫶

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 is storeBackupVersions.pl from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-23 — that's the version and the date of this very manual, and you now know it front to back. slay 💖✨

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