cimreparchive(8)

💖 cimreparchive(8) — System Manager's Manual 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is a lil command with a big job and it lives in section 8 of your system manager's manual 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

cimreparchive — make an archive copy of the CIM Server repository 🗂️✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cimreparchive archive_file

cimreparchive --help

cimreparchive --version

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so cimreparchive literally just creates an archive copy of the CIM Server repository and drops it into the archive_file you hand it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

and here's the part that's lowkey iconic: that archive copy is assured to contain a consistent repository state even if you make it while the CIM Server is running. no downtime, no drama, no "oops i snapshotted mid-write". the way that it just... works. 🔥

the archive_file itself gets created using the tar(1) command. ok so now the restore tea ☕ — to bring the repository back from your archive_file, you:

1. stop the cimserver
2. move the active repository files to a different location
3. use tar(2) to extract the archived repository files
4. restart the cimserver

🫶 tiny but important aside: the repository location is printed when an archive file is created. so don't close your terminal like it's nothing, bestie, that output is your map 🗺️

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

cimreparchive recognizes the following options:

• --help — displays the command help message. your lil "what do i even do here" button 🥺
• --version — displays the CIM Server version number. main character version energy ⭐

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

when an error occurs, an error message is written to the standard error stream and a non-zero exit status value is returned. (yes, non-zero = something went wrong, check stderr, don't ignore it 🙈)

the following exit status values are defined:

• 0 — Success 🌈 ate, no crumbs
• 1 — General error 😭
• 2 — Failed to initiate archive operation 💀
• 3 — Archive operation failed 🫠

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• cimserver(8)
• tar(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 go forth and archive responsibly. this was cimreparchive(8) from the System Manager's Manual — section 8, system manager territory, absolutely her era 👑🎀✨