backdown

backdown entities

What things are: mail stores, backups, phones, systems, repositories, libraries… with where they came from (reads small files like backup scripts on connected drives).

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backdown entities [OPTIONS] [PATHS]...

Arguments

[PATHS]...
Only these drives (or the drives these paths are on).

Options

--refresh
Recognise again even if nothing was scanned since.
--kind <KIND>
Only this kind (mail-store, timemachine, ios-backup, git, photos, …).
--json
Print it as JSON, for scripts.

Also takes the global options --db and --local.

Good to know

Kinds: mail-store, maildir, mdbox, thunderbird, nextcloud, nextcloud-server, timemachine, ios-backup, android-backup, system, home-mac, home-linux, home-windows, website, git, sql-dump, mongo-dump, sqlite-db, mysql-data, postgres-data, mongo-data, disk-image, photos, music, videos, export, downloads, recovery. Reading where things came from needs the drive connected: small files only (backup scripts, plists, git config, dump headers).

Examples

backdown entities
backdown entities /media/old-drive --kind mail-store
backdown entities --refresh --json > entities.json

See also

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