BRU for OS X’s scriptable command line operation may be used on any system. This chapter describes tips on getting started using BRU’s command line quickly.
ArGest Backup User Guide
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- What is ArGest Backup?
- General Notes
- Device Compatibility
- Performance
- Platform and Version Compatibility
- A Word About Capacity and Compression
- Fast Recovery
- Recover to an Alternate Location
- The BRU Tape Format
- Verify Capabilities
- Special Files
- File Comparisons
- File Restore Overwrite Protection
- Catalogs – What Are They?
- Archival Versus Backup
- Tape Data Protection Options
- Definitions and Concepts
- Important Backup Data Selection Concepts
- Installation, Licensing, QuickStart
- Advanced Terminal Operation
- The brutab File
- Terminal Archive Creation: The Backup Function
- Overview
- The BRU Command Line
- Command Line Options: Modes
- Telling BRU This Is a Backup (-c)
- Estimating Archive Size (-e)
- Command Line Options: Control Options
- Telling BRU What Device to Use: (-f device)
- Labeling the Archive: (-L) label
- Backing up Raw devices: (-r)
- Changing Default BRU Operations With: (-Q)
- Selection Depth for Backup: (-U)
- Setting the Verbosity Level: (-v and -V)
- Generating Log Files Using: (-v lower case v)
- Confirmation Option: (-w)
- Do Not Cross Mount Points: (-m)
- Excluding Remote Files: (-R)
- Running Without User Intervention: (-B)
- Specifying Media Size: (-s media_size)
- Data Compression: (-Z)
- Command Line Options: File Selection
- Using Wildcard Filename Expansion
- Using Pathnames
- Selecting Files from stdin: (-)
- Selecting Files by Date: (-n date)
- Date Formats for Use with (-n)
- Resetting Access Time: (-a)
- Inverse Date Specification
- Selecting Files by User: (-o)
- Selecting Files by User Name: (-o login_name)
- Selecting Files by File Owner: (-o pathname)
- Selecting Files by User ID: (-o decimal_value)
- Forcing Overwrite of Archives (OVERWRITEPROTECT): (-O)
- The Shell Scripts fullbru and incbru
- Interrupting BRU
- Terminal File Inclusion and Exclusion
- Terminal Archive Inspection and Verification
- Overview
- Archive Inspection
- Inspecting an Archive: (-i)
- Listing the Table of Contents: (-t)
- Dumping the Archive Information Block: (-g)
- Archive Verification
- Archive Verification – Reporting File Differences: (-d)
- Difference Mode Examples
- Using BRU To Find System Problems
- AUTOSCAN Verification
- When AUTOSCAN Is Disabled
- Terminal Extract Files: The Restore Function
- Overview
- The BRU Command Line
- Command Line Options: Modes
- Telling BRU To Restore: (-x)
- Command Line Options: Control Options
- Telling BRU What Device to Use: (-f device)
- Setting the Verbosity Level: (-v)
- Generating Log Files: (-v)
- Label Option: (-L)
- Command line override option: (-Q)
- Depth Selection on Restore Option: (-U)
- Confirmation Option: (-w)
- Changing Ownership of Extracted Files: (-C)
- Command Line Options: File Selection
- Using Wildcard File Name Expansion
- Using Include/Exclude Patterns
- Unconditional File Type Extraction: (-u flag)
- The -E File Extraction Option
- Extracting Filenames Read from stdin: –
- Extracting Files by Date: (-n date)
- Inverse Date Specification
- Extracting Files by User: (-o)
- Extracting Files by User Name: (-o username)
- Extracting Files by User ID: (-o uid)
- Extracting Files by File Owner: (-o pathname)
- Where To Put the Files: Pathnames
- Translate on Restore Option: (-T file)
- Converting Pathnames from Absolute to Relative Form: (-PA)
- Terminal Advanced Uses
- Overview
- Telling BRU the Buffer Size: (-b bufsize)
- Setting the Archive Media Size: (-s msize)
- Reading stdin or Writing stdout (standard I/O streams)
- Using Multiple Files/Devices: (-f device)
- Ownership of Extracted Files: (-C)
- Increasing BRU’s Speed
- Specifying a Larger (or Smaller) Buffer Size
- Available memory size
- Device limitations
- Improperly specified size
- Archive header information
- Double Buffering: (-D)
- Turning Off Error Checking: (-F)
- Using Data Compression: (-Z)
- Using An Alternate Compressor With BRU
- Using BRU with brutalk: (-I args)
- Running BRU from cron
- Setting Up a cron Entry
- BRU’s I/O Streams
- Handling Sparse Files: (-S threshold)
- Using Remote Devices (non-OS X)
- Restoring Shared Library Files – SmartRestore
- Appending to Existing Archives
- Live Systems Backups
- Appendix
- Appendiz A – Files That Are Installed
- Appendix B – The BRU Help Command
- Appendix C – The BRU Manual Page
- Appendix D – Table of BRU Modes and Options
- Appendix E – Sample BRUTAB File
- Appendix F – BRU Execution Log
- Appendix G – The Shell Scripts: fullbru and incbru
- Appendix H – The brutalk Program
- Appendix I – The brutalk File
- Appendix J – Advanced BRUTAB Settings
- Appendix K – Using MOUNTCMD and UNMOUNTCMD
- Appendix L – BRU Messages
- ArGest Backup License Agreement