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BAK
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: Aug 6, 2005 Index
NAME
bak - simple selective backup system
SYNOPSIS
bak [options]
DESCRIPTION
bak (BAckup Kit) is a shell-based backup utility,
suitable to backup only selected parts of a system, such as
configuration files, local additions, served web sites, important
documents, some system information etc.
If the system administrator takes care of saving default version
of config files with a conventional extension added before
modifying them, bak can automatically backup both the original and
customized version. This convention also allows diffs to be made
easily.
OPTIONS
When called with no options bak creates a backup archive under the
current directory named as per configuration file.
-a, --auto
Specifies how configuration files to backup are automatically
found. Overrides default mode defined in configuration file. Valid
choices are:
find
Use find(1) to search. Much slower than locate, but
ensures all the files will be found.
locate
Use locate(1) to search. Faster than find but needs the
locate database to be updated.
off
Disable automatic backup of files with default version.
update
Same as locate but updates the locate db before
searching.
-o, --output <file>
File name of the output archive (default is defined in
configuration file).
-c, --config-file <file>
Use alternative configuration file
(default is /usr/local/etc/bak.conf).
bak is Copyright (c) 2005 Antonio Bonifati and is licensed through
the GNU General Public License. Read the COPYING file for the
complete license.
BUGS
Under FreeBSD the standard locate utility is only able to find
files and directories readable for user ``nobody''. Unless all your
configuration files are world-readable, it is best to use the
``find'' mode to locate files. GNU slocate which comes by default
with Linux does not have this limitation.
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Time: 10:02:49 GMT, August 06, 2005