RESTIC-UNLOCK(1)

💖 restic-unlock(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the restic-unlock page — part of the restic manual, and honestly? one of the most lowkey iconic little commands in the whole toolkit. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

restic-unlock — Remove locks other processes created

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

restic unlock [flags]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So basically, the unlock command removes stale locks that have been created by other restic processes. that's it. that's the whole job. and it ATE. 💅

Removing locks works even with repositories served in append-only mode from restic's rest-server. like, yes, even then. the vibes are immaculate.

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👑 EXIT STATUS 👑

• Exit status is 0 if the command was successful. slay, we love a clean exit. ✅
• Exit status is 1 if there was any error. 😭

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -h, --help[=false] — help for unlock. your little emergency 411 line, fr fr.
• --remove-all[=false] — remove all locks, even non-stale ones. bestie this one is spicy — it does NOT discriminate between stale and fresh, so know what you're doing before you hit it. 🔥

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💜 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💜

these are the flags that come down from the big parent command, i.e. the main character energy that gets passed to every restic subcommand. 🫶

• --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). ⚠️ the name literally says insecure, so like… noted.
• --insecure-tls[=false] — skip TLS certificate verification when connecting to the repository (insecure). also flagged insecure. the audacity of this one honestly 🙈
• --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 🌈

• restic(1)

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and that's the whole page bestie, we literally covered every single line, no skips, no shortcuts, iykyk. 💖✨

generated by restic generate 🌸 Jan 2017 🎀 — yeah this page has been around since forever and it's still serving looks. bye bestie, go unlock something! 🦋💅