FORWARDDOWN(1)

NAME
forwarddown - manual page for forwarddown 2.3.1

SYNOPSIS
forwarddown key-id date backup-id1 backup-id2 ...

DESCRIPTION
Write encrypted, compressed tar from backed up files not newer than date to stdout.

OPTIONS

key-id
    key id of key to encrypt to

date
    backup should not be newer than the given date

backup-id[n]
    backups to restore

--help
    display this help and exit

--version
    display version and exit

CONFIG
The configfile /etc/backup.conf is a bash script, which defines the following variables:

excludes
    array of paths to exclude from backup

backups
    array with command line arguments for predefined backups for backup

maxWait
    maximum time to wait for destination directories to appear in last-backups and backup-statistics [seconds]

outdatedLimit
    time before backups are considered outdated by last-backups [seconds]

recognSubdirRegex
    regular expression of subdirectories which should be appended to the parent directory in the report by last-backups

cacheDir
    directory to store valuable information generated by backup-statistics in

remoteRsyncPrefix
    command prefix for the remote rsync process, e.g. to lower its priority on the machine being backed up

FILES
/etc/backup.conf

AUTHOR
Erich Eckner <opensource at eckner dot net>.

SEE ALSO
backup-statistics(1), hardlinked-backup(1), last-backups(1), remove-old-backups(1)