bup-server(1)

💖 bup-server — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, so this is bup-server, from the bup suite's General Commands Manual. it's literally the server half of the whole bup client-server situationship. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

bup-server — the server side of the bup client-server relationship 💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

bup server

like. that's it. that's the whole thing. queen of minimalism 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so bup server is the server side of a remote bup session. think of it as the other half of the phone call 📞

here's the tea: if you use bup-split(1) or bup-save(1) with the -r option, those bad boys will ssh over to the remote server and run bup server there, so it can receive the transmitted objects. it's giving long-distance relationship but make it data transfer 💖

and ngl bestie? there is normally no reason to run bup server yourself. it's not for you. it's for the machine. let the machines handle their business 🙈

but wait, there's a way to keep it chill: the server's resource usage can be limited by setting bup.server.deduplicate-writes to false. if you want the whole explanation, it's in bup-config(5) — go read the description there for the additional information, i promise it's worth it ✨

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• $BUP_DIR/bup-dumb-server — so when this file exists, bup will act as if bup.server.deduplicate-writes is set to false in the configuration. BUT — and this is important — unless the configuration already specifies a value. config wins, file loses, that's the hierarchy, periodt 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bup-save(1), bup-split(1), bup-config(1)

go read them. they're iconic. iykyk 🌸

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🧚 BUP 🧚

part of the bup(1) suite. one big happy family fr fr 🫶

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⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

Avery Pennarun — apenwarr@gmail.com 💌

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so yeah, that's the whole page, bestie. no cap. Bup 0.34, dated 2026-09-01 — shoutout to whoever wrote this in bup-server(1) form, you ate and left no crumbs 💅💖✨