SYNOPSIS
bup ftp
DESCRIPTION
bup ftp is a command-line tool for navigating bup repositories. It has commands similar to the Unix ftp(1) command. The file hierarchy is the same as that shown by bup-fuse(1) and bup-ls(1).
Note: if your system has the python-readline library installed, you can use the <tab> key to complete filenames while navigating your backup data. This will save you a lot of typing.
COMMANDS
The following commands are available inside bup ftp:
- ls [-s] [-a] [path]
-
print the contents of a directory.
If no path argument is given, the current directory's contents are
listed.
If -a is given, also include hidden files (files which start with a
. character).
If -s is given, each file is displayed with its hash from the bup
archive to its left.
- cd dirname
-
change to a different working directory
- pwd
-
print the path of the current working directory
- cat filenames...
-
print the contents of one or more files to stdout
- get filename localname
-
download the contents of filename and save it to disk as
localname.
If localname is omitted, uses filename as the local
name.
- mget filenames...
-
download the contents of the given filenames and stores them to
disk under the same names.
The filenames may contain Unix filename globs (*, ?,
etc.)
- help
-
print a list of available commands
- quit
-
exit the bup ftp client
EXAMPLES
-
$ bup ftp bup> ls mybackup/ yourbackup/ bup> cd mybackup/ bup> ls 2010-02-05-185507@ 2010-02-05-185508@ latest@ bup> cd latest/ bup> ls (...etc...) bup> get myfile Saving 'myfile' bup> quit
BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.