BAREOS-DIR(8)

📦 version 25.0.3, in alpine 3.24

🌸 BAREOS-DIR(8) 🌸

ok so this is a manual page for the bareos-dir command, and the manual series it lives in is literally called Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced — which is a whole mouthful but honestly kind of iconic? anyway. bestie. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

bareos-dir — the Bareos Director 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bareos-dir [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

this page is the quick-and-dirty rundown of the bareos-dir command, no cap.

so what is it? the Bareos Director Daemon is basically the main character of the whole network backup system — it's the one holding the clipboard, doing the scheduling and coordinating all the backups across the network. like a group-chat admin but for backups. lowkey obsessed with how much it does 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -c,--config path — tell it which configuration file or directory to use, bestie.
  • -d,--debug-level nn — crank the debug level to nn.
  • --dt,--debug-timestamps — print a timestamp in the debug output, for when you need to know when things went sideways.
  • -f,--foreground — run in the foreground (this one's for debugging, iykyk).
  • -g,--group group — set the group/gid to run as.
  • -m,--print-kaboom — print kaboom output (yep, really — and yes, it's for debugging 💀).
  • -p,--pid-file file — give it the full path to the pidfile.
  • -r,--run-job job — run job.
  • -s,--no-signals — no signals (again: debugging).
  • -t,--test-config — test the configuration and report any errors back to you.
  • -u,--user user — set the username/uid to run as.
  • -v,--verbose — set verbose mode.
  • --xc,--export-config [resource_type[name]] — print all the configuration resources, or just the specific ones you asked for, and then exit. ✨
  • --xs,--export-schema — print the configuration schema in JSON format and exit. ate.
  • -h,--help,-? — show the version and usage of the program.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bareos-fd(8), bareos-sd(8) — go read those too, they're the friends of this page 🧚

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

this manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net> — ty for your service, king 🫡

ok that's the whole thing! no gatekeeping, every flag accounted for 💜

and that's a wrap, bestie ✨ this page (from the Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced manual) was brought to you by Kern Sibbald, dated 6 December 2009 — a vintage icon fr fr 👑💖

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