• 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
• Installation
• License Types
• Licensing ArGest Backup
• Quick Start - Getting Started
• Performing the Restore
• Important note for restoring to an external USB, FireWire or non-system internal disks
• Special Considerations for Library Use
• Advanced Terminal Operation
• Overview
• Tape under OS X
• Further Descriptions
• Command Line Examples
• Getting Started
• Advanced Operations
• The brutab File
• Boolean brutab Fields
• The Syntax of brutab Entries
• brutab Default Values
• The Default Device
• brutab Fields
• Global brutab Parameters
• Determining Parameter Values: -hh
• 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
• The bruxpat File and the - QX Option
• Specifying Include/Exclude Patterns
• The Control Field: Action Type Characters
• The Control Field: Pattern Type Characters
• The Pattern Field
• A Sample bruxpat File
• Testing Include/Exclude Patterns
• 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