PLAKAR(1)

NAME
plakar - effortless backups

SYNOPSIS
plakar [-config path] [-cpu number] [-hostname name] [-keyfile path] [-no-agent] [-quiet] [-trace what] [-username name] [at repository] subcommand ...

DESCRIPTION
plakar is a tool to create distributed, versioned backups with compression, encryption and data deduplication.

By default, plakar operates on the repository at ~/.plakar. This can be changed either by using the at keyword or by setting a default repository using plakar-config(1).

The following options are available:

-config path
    Use the configuration at path.

-cpu number
    Limit the number of parallelism that plakar uses to number. By default it's the number of online CPUs.

-hostname name
    Change the hostname used for backups. Defaults to the current hostname.

-keyfile path
    Use the passphrase from the key file at path instead of prompting to unlock.

-no-agent
    Run without attempting to connect to the agent.

-quiet
    Disable all output except for errors.

-trace what
    Display trace logs. what is a comma-separated series of keywords to enable the trace logs for different subsystems: all, trace, repository, snapshot and server.

-username name
    Change the username used for backups. Defaults to the current user name.

at repository
    Operate on the given repository. It could be a path, an URI, or a label in the form “@name” to reference a configuration created with plakar-config(1).

The following commands are available:

agent
    Run the plakar agent, documented in plakar-agent(1).
archive
    Create an archive from a Plakar snapshot, documented in plakar-archive(1).
backup
    Create a new snapshot, documented in plakar-backup(1).
cat Display file contents from a Plakar snapshot, documented in plakar-cat(1).
check
    Check data integrity in a Plakar repository, documented in plakar-check(1).
clone
    Clone a Plakar repository to a new location, documented in plakar-clone(1).
config
    Manage Plakar configuration, documented in plakar-config(1).
create
    Create a new Plakar repository, documented in plakar-create(1).
diff
    Show differences between files in a Plakar snapshot, documented in plakar-diff(1).
digest
    Compute digests for files in a Plakar snapshot, documented in plakar-digest(1).
help
    Show this manpage and the ones for the subcommands.
info
    Display detailed information about internal structures, documented in plakar-info(1).
locate
    Find filenames in a Plakar snapshot, documented in plakar-locate(1).
ls  List snapshots and their contents in a Plakar repository, documented in plakar-ls(1).
maintenance
    Remove unused data from a Plakar repository, documented in plakar-mantenance(1).
mount
    Mount Plakar snapshots as read-only filesystem, documented in plakar-mount(1).
restore
    Restore files from a Plakar snapshot, documented in plakar-restore(1).
rm  Remove snapshots from a Plakar repository, documented in plakar-rm(1).
server
    Start a Plakar server, documented in plakar-server(1).
sync
    Synchronize sanpshots between Plakar repositories, documented in plakar-sync(1).
ui  Serve the Plakar web user interface, documented in plakar-ui(1).
version
    Display the current Plakar version, documented in plakar-version(1).

ENVIRONMENT

PLAKAR_PASSPHRASE
    Passphrase to unlock the repository, overrides the one from the configuration. If set, plakar won't prompt to unlock.

PLAKAR_REPOSITORY
    Path to the default repository, overrides the configuration set with plakar config repository default.

FILES

~/.cache/plakar and ~/.cache/plakar-agentless
    Plakar cache directories.

~/.config/plakar/plakar.yml
    Default configuration file.

~/.plakar
    Default repository location.

EXAMPLES
Create an encrypted repository at the default location:

    $ plakar create

Create an encrypted repository on AWS S3:

    $ plakar config repository create mys3bucket
    $ plakar config repository set mys3bucket location \
    	s3://s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/backups
    $ plakar config repository set mys3bucket access_key "access_key"
    $ plakar config repository set mys3bucket secret_access_key "secret_key"
    $ plakar at @mys3bucket create

Set the “mys3bucket” repository just created as the default one used by plakar:

    $ plakar config repository default mys3bucket

Create a snapshot of the current directory:

    $ plakar backup

List the snapshots:

    $ plakar ls

Restore the file “notes.md” in the current directory from the snapshot with id “abcd”:

    $ plakar restore -to . abcd:notes.md

Remove snapshots older than a 30 days:

    $ plakar rm -before 30d