RESTIC-GENERATE(1)

✨ restic-generate — the manual page 🎀

hii bestie, you found the restic backup(1) family of man pages 💖 this one is all about restic generate, the little command that makes other files for you. no cap.

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🌸 NAME

restic-generate — Generate manual pages and auto-completion files (bash, fish, zsh, powershell)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS

restic generate [flags]

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✨ DESCRIPTION

so like, the generate command literally writes automatically generated files for u 🫶 think man pages, and the auto-completion files for bash, fish, powershell and zsh. it's giving "let the machine do the typing, bestie." periodt.

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💅 EXIT STATUS

• Exit status is 0 if the command was successful. slay. ✅
• Exit status is 1 if there was any error. 😭

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👑 OPTIONS

• --bash-completion="" — write bash completion file (- for stdout)
• --fish-completion="" — write fish completion file (- for stdout)
• -h, --help[=false] — help for generate
• --man="" — write man pages to directory
• --powershell-completion="" — write powershell completion file (- for stdout)
• --zsh-completion="" — write zsh completion file (- for stdout)

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💜 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

these ones come down from the parent command, so they're in the group chat whether u asked or not 🙈

• --cacert=[] — file to load root certificates from (default: use system certificates or $RESTIC_CACERT)
• --cache-dir="" — set the cache directory. (default: use system default cache directory)
• --cleanup-cache[=false] — auto remove old cache directories
• --compression=auto — compression mode (only available for repository format version 2), one of (auto|off|fastest|better|max) (default: $RESTIC_COMPRESSION)
• --http-user-agent="" — set a http user agent for outgoing http requests
• --insecure-no-password[=false] — use an empty password for the repository, must be passed to every restic command (insecure)
• --insecure-tls[=false] — skip TLS certificate verification when connecting to the repository (insecure)
• --json[=false] — set output mode to JSON for commands that support it
• --key-hint="" — key ID of key to try decrypting first (default: $RESTIC_KEY_HINT)
• --limit-download=0 — limits downloads to a maximum rate in KiB/s. (default: unlimited)
• --limit-upload=0 — limits uploads to a maximum rate in KiB/s. (default: unlimited)
• --no-cache[=false] — do not use a local cache
• --no-extra-verify[=false] — skip additional verification of data before upload (see documentation)
• --no-lock[=false] — do not lock the repository, this allows some operations on read-only repositories
• -o, --option=[] — set extended option (key=value, can be specified multiple times)
• --pack-size=0 — set target pack size in MiB, created pack files may be larger (default: $RESTIC_PACK_SIZE)
• --password-command="" — shell command to obtain the repository password from (default: $RESTIC_PASSWORD_COMMAND)
• -p, --password-file="" — file to read the repository password from (default: $RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE)
• -q, --quiet[=false] — do not output comprehensive progress report
• -r, --repo="" — repository to backup to or restore from (default: $RESTIC_REPOSITORY)
• --repository-file="" — file to read the repository location from (default: $RESTIC_REPOSITORY_FILE)
• --retry-lock=0s — retry to lock the repository if it is already locked, takes a value like 5m or 2h (default: no retries)
• --stuck-request-timeout=5m0s — duration after which to retry stuck requests
• --tls-client-cert="" — path to a file containing PEM encoded TLS client certificate and private key (default: $RESTIC_TLS_CLIENT_CERT)
• -v, --verbose[=0] — be verbose (specify multiple times or a level using `--verbose=n``, max level/times is 2)

bestie, notice those (insecure) tags? yeah. that's not a vibe, that's a warning 💀 they literally say insecure. don't be the main character who ignores it.

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🌈 SEE ALSO

• restic(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was generated by restic generate, dated Jan 2017, and it's living in the restic backup(1) manual set 🦋 go forth and autocomplete ur little heart out, u icon 💖✨🎀