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Get data from a bupstash repository.

bupstash get [OPTIONS] QUERY...

bupstash get fetches and decrypts data stored in a bupstash repository, sending it to stdout. If the requested item was saved as a directory, the command converts it into a tar stream.

The item that is fetched is chosen based on a simple query against the tags specified when saving data with bupstash put.

For full documentation on the query language, see bupstash-query-language(7).

The get command uses the same query caching mechanisms as bupstash-list(1), check that page for more information on the query cache.

When getting a directory as a tarball sparse files are not treated specially, to restore sparse files while preserving the file holes use bupstash restore instead.

The repository to connect to, , may be of the form ssh://$SERVER/$PATH for remote repositories if ssh access is configured. If not specified, is set to BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY.
Key that will be used to decrypt data and metadata. If not set, defaults to BUPSTASH_KEY.
Fetch an individual file or sub-directory from a snapshot.
Path to the query-cache file, defaults to one of the following, in order, provided the appropriate environment variables are set, $BUPSTASH_QUERY_CACHE, $XDG_CACHE_HOME/.cache/bupstash/bupstash.qcache or $HOME/.cache/bupstash/bupstash.qcache.
Display and search against timestamps in utc time instead of local time.
Suppress progress indicators (Progress indicators are also suppressed when stderr is not an interactive terminal).
Be quiet, implies --no-progress.

The repository to connect to. May be of the form ssh://$SERVER/$PATH for remote repositories if ssh access is configured.
A command to run to connect to an instance of bupstash-serve(1). This allows more complex connections to the repository for less common use cases.
Path to the key that will be used for decrypting data and metadata.
A command to run that must print the key data, can be used instead of BUPSTASH_KEY to fetch the key from arbitrary locations such as the network or other secret storage.
Path to the query cache file to use.

$ bupstash get id=14ebd2073b258b1f55c5bbc889c49db4 > ./data.file

$ bupstash get name=backup.tar and timestamp=2020/19/* > ./restore.tar

$ bupstash get --pick=path/to/file.txt id=$id $ bupstash get --pick=path/to/dir id=$id | tar ...

The builtin directory put creates a tarball from a directory, so to extract it we use tar.

``` # Snapshot a directory. $ id=$(bupstash put ./data)$ mkdir restore $ bupstash get id=$id | tar -C ./restore -xvf - ```

bupstash(1), bupstash-put(1), bupstash-list(1), bupstash-restore(1), bupstash-rm(1), bupstash-keyfiles(7), bupstash-query-language(7)