RESTIC-REBUILD-INDEX(1)

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✨ NAME ✨

restic-rebuild-index — Build a new index 🏗️

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

restic rebuild-index [flags]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the rebuild-index command is literally the glow-up queen of your repo: it creates a new index based on the pack files that are already chilling in the repository. no cap, that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🎀 EXIT STATUS 🎀

Exit status is 0 if the command was successful, and non-zero if there was any error. so like, 0 = slay, anything else = bestie we have a problem 😭

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help[=false] — help for rebuild-index 🫶 (yes it will explain itself to you, iconic)
• --read-all-packs[=false] — read all pack files to generate new index from scratch 🔥 (the full send, no shortcuts)

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🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

these ones come down from the parent command like hand-me-downs that are actually cute 💜

• --cacert=[] — file to load root certificates from (default: use system certificates)
• --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|max)
• --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-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)
• --tls-client-cert="" — path to a file containing PEM encoded TLS client certificate and private key
• -v, --verbose[=0] — be verbose (specify multiple times or a level using --verbose=n, max level/times is 3)

⚠️ quick heads up bestie: --insecure-tls is literally insecure, the name is not clickbait. use it with intention, not by accident. 🫣

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• restic(1)

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