flexbackup1

Usage

Overview

Flexbackup is a perl script front-end to various low-level archiving utilities such as tar, dump/restore, cpio, and others.

Options

flexbackup -dir <dir>

Backup a directory tree starting from path "path" using level 0 (full).

flexbackup -set all

Backup all sets defined in flexbackup.conf(5) using level 0 (full).

flexbackup -set <tag>

Backup a set named "tag" using level 0 (full). The set name is defined in flexbackup.conf(5).

flexbackup [...] -level <0-9 | full | differential | incremental>

Change backup level to a number "0-9", or one of the symbolic names: "full" (level 0); "differential" (level 1); "incremental" (previous backup level + 1).

flexbackup [...] -pkgdelta <rpm | freebsd>

Prune backup to files not part of a package or changed from distributed version.

flexbackup [...] -wday <0-7>

Backup only if the week day matches the input number. Sunday is 0 or 7.

flexbackup [...] -pipe

Write backup data to stdout rather than file/device.

flexbackup [...] -ignore-errors

Continue backups even if commands return error status

Options

flexbackup -list

List files in archive.

flexbackup -extract

Extract (restore) all files from archive into your current working directory.

flexbackup -extract -flist <filelist>

Extract (restore) the files listed in text file "filelist" into your current working directory.

flexbackup -extract -onefile <filename>

Extract (restore) the single file named "filename" into your current working directory.

flexbackup -compare

Compare the archive with the files in your current working directory.

flexbackup -restore

Interactive restore (dump type only for now).

flexbackup [...] -num <n>

Read file number "n" from tape. If not given uses current tape position.

flexbackup [...] <archive>

If archiving to files rather than a device, use file named "archive" for the list/extract/compare/restore operations.

flexbackup [...] -pipe

Read backup data from stdin rather than file/device.

Options

flexbackup -toc

List current device's table of contents.

flexbackup -toc all

List all known table of contents.

flexbackup -toc <key>

List table of contents for specific database index key named "key".

flexbackup -rmindex all

Force delete all database index info.

flexbackup -rmindex <key>

Force delete specified database tape/dir index key named "key".

flexbackup -rmindex <key:file>

Force delete specified database tape/dir index key named "key", file number "file".

Options

flexbackup -newtape

Erase and create new index key (but don't do any backups).

flexbackup -rmfile all

If archiving to files rather than device, remove all files and index information.

flexbackup -rmfile <file>

If archiving to files rather than device, remove the file named "file" and its index information.

flexbackup [...] -c <file.conf>

Use file named "file.conf" for configuration information instead of /etc/flexbackup.conf(5).

flexbackup [...] -type <type>

Override $type setting from config file with "type".

flexbackup [...] -compress <type>

Override $compress setting from config file with "type".

flexbackup [...] -device <device>

Override $device setting from config file with "device".

flexbackup [...] -d <'setting=value'>

Override $setting setting from config file with "value".

flexbackup -dir <dir> -erase

Force a rewind/erase before backup of directory named "dir".

flexbackup -dir <dir> -norewind

Do not rewind tape after a single backup of directory named "dir".

flexbackup -set <tag> -noreten

Do not retension tape for level 0 (full) backups of set named "tag".

flexbackup -set <tag> -noerase

Do not rewind/erase tape for level 0 (full) backups of set named "tag".

flexbackup [...] -reten

Force a retension of tape before reading.

flexbackup [...] -defaults

Do not use any default values for config variables.

flexbackup -version

Display version and exit.

Options

flexbackup -test-tape-drive

Tries writing/reading files to make sure you have tape driver and parameters set up correctly in flexbackup.conf(5).

flexbackup [...] -n

Don't run actual dump or mt commands, just print the steps that would be taken (dry run).

flexbackup [...] -type filelist

Run a special backup type that just saves a list of files that would have been archived.

Files

/etc/flexbackup.conf - configuration settings