bupstash-get -

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION QUERY LANGUAGE QUERY CACHING SPARSE FILES OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT EXAMPLES Get an item with a specific id Get an item by name and timestamp Get a file or sub−tar from a directory snapshot Get a tarball SEE ALSO

SYNOPSIS

Get data from a bupstash repository.

bupstash get [OPTIONS] QUERY...

DESCRIPTION

bupstash get fetches and decrypts data stored in a bupstash repository, sending it to stdout. If the requested item was saved as a directory, the command converts it into a tar stream.

The item that is fetched is chosen based on a simple query against the tags specified when saving data with bupstash put.

QUERY LANGUAGE

For full documentation on the query language, see bupstash−query−language(7).

QUERY CACHING

The get command uses the same query caching mechanisms as bupstash−list(1), check that page for more information on the query cache.

SPARSE FILES

When getting a directory as a tarball sparse files are not treated specially, to restore sparse files while preserving the file holes use bupstash restore instead.

OPTIONS

−r, −−repository REPO

The repository to connect to, , may be of the form ssh://$SERVER/$PATH for remote repositories if ssh access is configured. If not specified, is set to BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY.

−k, −−key KEY

Key that will be used to decrypt data and metadata. If not set, defaults to BUPSTASH_KEY.

−−pick PATH

Fetch an individual file or sub−directory from a snapshot.

−−query−cache PATH

Path to the query−cache file, defaults to one of the following, in order, provided the appropriate environment variables are set, $BUPSTASH_QUERY_CACHE, $XDG_CACHE_HOME/.cache/bupstash/bupstash.qcache or $HOME/.cache/bupstash/bupstash.qcache.

−−utc−timestamps

Display and search against timestamps in utc time instead of local time.

−−no−progress

Suppress progress indicators (Progress indicators are also suppressed when stderr is not an interactive terminal).

−q, −−quiet

Be quiet, implies −−no−progress.

ENVIRONMENT

BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY

The repository to connect to. May be of the form ssh://$SERVER/$PATH for remote repositories if ssh access is configured.

BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY_COMMAND

A command to run to connect to an instance of bupstash−serve(1). This allows more complex connections to the repository for less common use cases.

BUPSTASH_KEY

Path to the key that will be used for decrypting data and metadata.

BUPSTASH_KEY_COMMAND

A command to run that must print the key data, can be used instead of BUPSTASH_KEY to fetch the key from arbitrary locations such as the network or other secret storage.

BUPSTASH_QUERY_CACHE

Path to the query cache file to use.

EXAMPLES

Get an item with a specific id

$ bupstash get id=14ebd2073b258b1f55c5bbc889c49db4 > ./data.file

Get an item by name and timestamp

$ bupstash get name=backup.tar and timestamp=2020/19/* > ./restore.tar

Get a file or sub−tar from a directory snapshot

$ bupstash get −−pick=path/to/file.txt id=$id
$ bupstash get −−pick=path/to/dir id=$id | tar ...

Get a tarball

The builtin directory put creates a tarball from a directory, so to extract it we use tar.

# Snapshot a directory.
$ id=$(bupstash put ./data)

# Fetch the contents of a snapshot and extract the contents with tar
$ mkdir restore
$ bupstash get id=$id | tar −C ./restore −xvf −