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BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8) | backup-manager-upload | BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8) |
NAME¶
backup-manager-upload - Multiprotocol uploader for backup-manager.
SYNOPSIS¶
backup-manager-upload [options] date
DESCRIPTION¶
backup-manager-upload will upload all the archives generated on the given date to the specified host with either ftp or scp. It's also possible to use this program for uploading data to an Amazon S3 account. Some metadates are available like "today" or "yesterday".
REQUIRED ARGS¶
- --mode=transfer-mode
- Select the transfer mode to use : ftp, scp, or s3.
- --host=hostname1,hostname2,...,hostnameN
- Select a list of remote hosts to connect to.
- --user=username
- Select the user to use for connection.
OPTIONAL ARGS¶
- --password=password
- Select the ftp user's password (only needed for ftp transfers).
- --key=path_to_private_key
- Select the ssh private key file to use when opening the ssh session for scp transfer. Obviously, this is only needed for scp transfer mode. If you don't specify a key file, the user's default private key will be used.
- --directory=directory
- Select the location on the remote host where files will be uploaded. Default is /backup/uploads.
- --bucket=bucket
- Sets the bucket name for the Amazon S3 service backup into.
- --root=directory
- Select the local directory where files are. Default is /var/archives
- --gpg-recipient=gpg-recipient
- Select the gpg public key for encryptiong the archives when uploading with the method ssh-gpg. This can be a short or long key id or a descriptive name. The precise syntax is described in the gpg man page.
- --list
- Just list the files to upload.
- --ftp-purge
- Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode.
- --s3-purge
- Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode.
- --ssh-purge
- Purge the remote directory before uploading files in SSH mode.
- --verbose
- Flag to enable verbose mode.
- date
- Date pattern to select some files to upload, can be a valid date (YYYYMMDD) or 'today' or 'yesterday'.
ERROR CODES¶
If something goes wrong during an upload, backup-manager-upload will exit with a non null value. In such a case every error messages are sent to STDERR.
Here are the possible error codes:
SEE ALSO¶
backup-manager(3)
AUTHORS¶
Alexis Sukrieh - main code and design
Brad Dixon - Amazon S3 upload method
Jan Metzger - ssh-gpg upload method
2023-02-10 | perl v5.36.0 |