NAME
backupchecker - fully automated backup checker
SYNOPSIS
backupchecker [-c DIR] [-l FILE] [-G] ARG1 ARG2
DESCRIPTION
Backup Checker parses backups (archives and file tree) to perform several different checks in order to verify your backup integrity and its associated content.
OPTIONS
- -c DIR, --configpath DIR
-
the path to the configurations
- -C DIR, --output-conf-dir DIR
-
the directory to store the configuration file
- -d DELIMITER, --delimiter DELIMITER
-
delimiter of the fields for the list of files
- -E FILE, --exceptions-file FILE
-
delimiter of the fields for the list of files
- -g, --gen-list
-
generate a list of files inside a backup
- -G, --gen-full
-
generate the configuration file and the list of files for the backup
- -H, --hashes
-
generate the hash sum of each encountered file in the backup
- --hashtype HASHTYPE
-
the type of the hash sum to use while generating configurations for the archive
- -l FILE, --log FILE
-
the log file
- -L DIR, --output-list-dir DIR
-
the directory to store the list of files inside an archive or tree
- -n NAME, --configuration-name NAME
-
the name to use to name the .conf and .list generated by -g or -G options (default is the name of the archive)
- -O DIR, --output-list-and-conf-dir DIR
-
the directory to store the configuration file and the list of files inside an archive or tree
- -v, --version
-
the version of Backup Checker
EXAMPLES
Generate the list of files (.conf and .list files) and their attributes inside a backup
$ backupchecker -G /backups/monthly-backup.tar.gz
Launch Backup Checker indicating your configuration directory and your log file
$ backupchecker -c /etc/brebis/ -l /var/log/brebis.log
Verify a remote backup by FTP
$ wget --quiet -O - ftp://user:pass@server/backup.tar.gz | backupchecker -c /etc/brebis/ -l /var/log/brebis.log
AUTHOR
Carl Chenet <[email protected][]>
RESSOURCES
Backup Checkup project homepage : https://github.com/backupchecker/backupchecker
LICENSE
Copyright © 2015-2017 Carl Chenet <[email protected]> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.