backdown pool
The pool: folders on the swarm's drives that drives are filed into, each file once. On the machine whose drive it's on: pool add FOLDER; pool list shows every machine's.
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backdown pool [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>backdown pool add
Make a folder on one of this machine's drives part of the pool (it's created if need be)
backdown pool add [OPTIONS] <PATH>Arguments
<PATH>-
Options
--reserve <SIZE|PCT>next preview- Room to keep free on its drive: a size (50G) or a share (5%); 5 % of the drive, at least 20 GB, unless said.
--takes <PLACES>next preview- The top-level places it takes, like Mail,Media (unless said, anything).
backdown pool list
Every pool folder of the swarm: this machine's, and the others' as they last said.
backdown pool list [OPTIONS]Options
--json- Print it as JSON, for scripts.
backdown pool set
Change what a pool folder of this machine keeps free or takes.
backdown pool set [OPTIONS] <FOLDER>Arguments
<FOLDER>- Its path, or its number from
pool list.
Options
--reserve <SIZE|PCT>next preview-
--takes <PLACES>next preview- The top-level places it takes (an empty value: anything).
backdown pool remove
Stop treating a folder of this machine as part of the pool (nothing in it is touched)
backdown pool remove [OPTIONS] <FOLDER>Arguments
<FOLDER>- Its path, or its number from
pool list.
backdown pool plan
Where a drive's things would go in the pool: what's in it already (by content, on any machine), what's new, and which pool folder each thing goes into. Kept as a pool plan.
backdown pool plan [OPTIONS] <DRIVE>Arguments
<DRIVE>- The drive: its path as indexed here, or its folder name.
Options
--json- Print it as JSON, for scripts.
backdown pool send
Copy a drive into the pool as its plan says: each file read back there and compared by SHA-256; what's in the pool already, or not as the drive was last scanned, isn't sent. Stopped or interrupted, it carries on where it was.
backdown pool send [OPTIONS] <PLAN>Arguments
<PLAN>- The plan's number (backdown pool plans).
backdown pool plans
The pool plans made here, or one of them.
backdown pool plans [OPTIONS] [ID]Arguments
[ID]- A plan's number, to show it whole.
Options
--json- Print it as JSON, for scripts.
All of them also take the global options --db and --local.
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