---
name: "faubackup.conf"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "faubackup"
version: "0.5.9"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/faubackup.conf"
---

# faubackup.conf(5)

Configuration for faubackup(8)

## NAME

faubackup.conf - Configuration for [faubackup(8)](/faubackup/8.md)

## SYNOPSIS

**/etc/faubackup.conf**

## DESCRIPTION

Configuration is read from **/etc/faubackup.conf**. Blank lines and lines starting with \`#' are ignored. Perl-Syntax is used to change things: \`$key = value;'. The file must start with **package FAUBACKUP;** and end with **1;**.

These settings are supported:

- **$backup = *string*;**

  The default destination for backups. This is used when no destination directory is specified on the command line. It may contain the special strings **MACHINE** and/or **DIR**, which are replaced by the hostname or directory-name of the backup source. Slashes in the source directory name will be converted to dashes. Default is "/backup/MACHINE:DIR".

- **$autocreate = *number*;**

  If non-zero, **faubackup** will create the destination directory, if it doesn't already exist. Default is enabled (1).

- **$keepyears = *number*;**

  Yearly backups are kept for at least *number* years when cleaning. Default is to keep two yearly backups.

- **$keepmonths = *number*;**

  Monthly backups are kept for at least *number* months when cleaning. Default is to keep twelve monthly backups.

- **$keepweeks = *number*;**

  Weekly backups are kept for at least *number* weeks when cleaning. Default is to keep four weekly backups.

- **$keepdays = *number*;**

  Daily backups are kept for at least *number* days when cleaning. Default is to keep seven daily backups.

- **$keeplastofday = *boolean*;**

  If this is nonzero, the last daily backup (instead of the first) will be kept when cleaning. Default is zero (keep the first even for daily backups).

- **$rsh = *string*;**

  The command executed to start commands on remote machines. This may be overwritten by the environment Variable **FAUBACKUP\_RSH**. Default is to use "rsh".

- **$gather = *string*;**

  The command used to gather the files. Default is "faubackup-gather".

- **$scatter = *string*;**

  The command used to scatter the files. Default is "faubackup-scatter".

- **$find = *string*;**

  The command used to compute the file list to backup. Default is "faubackup-find". This command must list all files on stdout, separated by NUL characters. The last entry sent MUST be the current directory, "."!

- **$getroot = *string*;**

  The command used to obtain root access. Can be set to "sudo" or similar. There is no default.

- **@ignore = *list of strings*;**

  Arguments passed to the $find Command. For faubackup-find, this is a list of expressions not to be processed. See [faubackup-find(8)](/faubackup-find/8.md) for details.

- **$atime\_preserve = *number*;**

  If this variable is non-null then --atime-preserve will be passed to faubackup-gather

## SEE ALSO

[**faubackup**(8)](/faubackup/8.md)

## COPYRIGHT

FauBackup is Copyright (c) 2000-01 Dr. Volkmar Sieh, (c) 2000-06 Martin Waitz. Developed at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

FauBackup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This 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 2, or (at your option) any later version. Look at COPYING for details.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Martin Waitz \<tali@admingilde.org\>.