---
name: "backup-manager"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "backup-manager"
version: "0.5.7-1sarge2"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/backup-manager/3"
---

# backup-manager(3)

An easy to use backup tool for your Linux box.

## NAME

backup-manager - An easy to use backup tool for your Linux box.

## SYNOPSIS

  backup-manager \[options\]

## DESCRIPTION

This is a smart tool written in Bash and Perl to provide an easy way for  backuping local directories.

All the behaviour of the tool will be determined by configuration files,  default one is /etc/backup-manager.conf. All the configuration keys located in the configuration file can tune the way backup-manager will work. It is able to make tarballs in tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar and zip format, upload them to remote hosts using FTP or SSH, burn them to CDR/CDRW automatically using mkisofs and cdrecord.

## OPTIONS

**--verbose\|-v** Print what happends to STDOUT.

**--no-warnings** Disable warnings.

**--help\|-h** Print a short help message.

**--upload\|-u** Just upload the files.

**--purge\|-p** Just purge old archives.

**--burn\|-b** Just burn the archives.

**--md5check\|-m** Just perform the MD5 checkup on the CDR/CDRW.

**--config\|-c file** Use an alternate config file.

**--force\|-f** Force overwrite of existing archives.

**--no-upload** Disable the uploading process.

**--no-burn** Disable the burning process.

**--no-purge** Disable the purging process.

## UPLOADING SYSTEM

If the scp transfert mode is used, no password will be prompted, ssh key authentification will be used instead. Be sure if you use this transfert mode to set the appropriate keys on your ssh accouts.

backup-manager uses backup-manager-upload for uploading files. Although backup-manager is run by root (from crond), backup-manager-upload will be launched with the upload user you choose. this means that the user  should exist on both remote and local machines. Keep that in mind when editing the ssh authorized keys on remote hosts.

## BURNING SYSTEM

If the BM\_BURNING vonfiguration key is set to "yes", backup-manager will try to burn the archives after generating it.

## NOTES

On debian system the best way to configure backup-manager is to use dpkg-reconfigure.

## SEE ALSO

**backup-manager-upload**(3), [**ssh-keygen**(1)](/ssh-keygen/1.md)

## AUTHOR

Alexis Sukrieh \<sukria@sukria.net\>