RESTIC-OPTIONS(1)

🌸 restic-options(1) — the manual, bestie edition 🌸

okay so you found yourself at the restic options manual page and honestly? valid. this is a page from the restic manual family, so if you're here you're probably poking around in the extended-options department. sit down, hydrate, and let's read this thing together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

restic-options — print list of extended options

like, that's it. that's the whole job. she prints the list. iconique.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

restic options [flags]

short, sweet, no notes 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The "options" command prints a list of extended options.

that's the vibe. you run it, it shows you the extended options. no cap, no extra lore, just the list. 🌈

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💖 EXIT STATUS 💖

• Exit status is 0 if the command was successful. slay, she ate, everything worked ✨
• Exit status is 1 if there was any error. not slay, something went wrong 😭

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help[=false] — help for options. your little safety net whenever you're like "wait what does this do again" 🧚

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💜 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💜

these are the family heirlooms — passed down from the parent command, every single one of them, no skips, no skips allowed:

• --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 real talk for a sec: a couple of these are literally labelled (insecure) in the source — --insecure-no-password and --insecure-tls — and --no-lock does what it says on the tin. when the page says insecure, she MEANS insecure. be careful, ily 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• restic(1)

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this little masterpiece was generated by restic generate, dated Jan 2017, and it lives in the restic backup(1) corner of the manual universe. go forth and --option responsibly 🎀🦋💖