RESTIC-KEY(1)

💖 NAME 💖

restic-key — manage keys (passwords) 🔑✨

(and yes bestie, this page lives in the restic backup(1) manual, that's just where it's filed okay don't @ me)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

restic key [flags]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the key command is literally THE moment you get to set multiple access keys or passwords per repository. one repo, so many keys, main character energy fr fr 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help[=false] — help for key. the classic. ask and it shall tell 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these came from the parent command, so they're like, family heirlooms at this point 💜

• --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)

⚠️ bestie it literally says insecure in the flag name. it's giving "I know what I'm doing" and I respect it but I'm also side-eyeing you 🙈

• --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)

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, they're the whole friend group 💕

• restic(1)
• restic-key-add(1)
• restic-key-list(1)
• restic-key-passwd(1)
• restic-key-remove(1)

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✨ that's the whole page bestie ✨ this lil beauty was generated by restic generate, dated Jan 2017, and it belongs to the restic backup(1) manual. go forth and manage those keys, you absolute icon 👑💖🦋