backup-manager-upload (8)

backup-manager-upload [options] date

backup-manager-upload will upload all the archives generated on the given date to the specified host with either ftp or scp. It's also possible to use this program for uploading data to an Amazon S3 account. Some metadates are available like \*(L"today\*(R" or \*(L"yesterday\*(R".

--mode=transfer-mode

Select the transfer mode to use : ftp, scp, or s3.

--host=hostname1,hostname2,...,hostnameN

Select a list of remote hosts to connect to.

--user=username

Select the user to use for connection.

--password=password

Select the ftp user's password (only needed for ftp transfers).

--key=path_to_private_key

Select the ssh private key file to use when opening the ssh session for scp transfer. Obviously, this is only needed for scp transfer mode. If you don't specify a key file, the user's default private key will be used.

--directory=directory

Select the location on the remote host where files will be uploaded. Default is /backup/uploads.

--bucket=bucket

Sets the bucket name for the Amazon S3 service backup into.

--root=directory

Select the local directory where files are. Default is /var/archives

--gpg-recipient=gpg-recipient

Select the gpg public key for encryptiong the archives when uploading with the method ssh-gpg. This can be a short or long key id or a descriptive name. The precise syntax is described in the gpg man page.

--list

Just list the files to upload.

--ftp-purge

Purge the remote directory before uploading files in \s-1FTP\s0 mode.

--s3-purge

Purge the remote directory before uploading files in \s-1FTP\s0 mode.

--ssh-purge

Purge the remote directory before uploading files in \s-1SSH\s0 mode.

--verbose

Flag to enable verbose mode.

date

Date pattern to select some files to upload, can be a valid date (\s-1YYYYMMDD\s0) or 'today' or 'yesterday'.

If something goes wrong during an upload, backup-manager-upload will exit with a non null value. In such a case every error messages are sent to \s-1STDERR\s0.

Here are the possible error codes:

bad command line (wrong arguments) : 10

\s-1FTP\s0 transfer failure : 20

\s-1SCP\s0 transfer failure : 21

S3 transfer failure : 22

Unknown upload method: 23

backup-manager\|(3)

Alexis Sukrieh - main code and design

Brad Dixon - Amazon S3 upload method

Jan Metzger - ssh-gpg upload method