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balboa-backend-console(1)

balboa-backend-console1

Backend maintenance console for balboa

Usage

balboa-backend-console {<--version | help | jsonize | dump | replay> [options]}

Overview

`balboa-backend-console` is a management tool for `balboa-backends`

Command help:

show help

Command jsonize:

read a dump file and print all entries as json

-d <path> path to the dump file to read

Command dump:

connect to a `balboa-backend` and request a dump of all data to local stdout

-h <host> ip address of the `balboa-backend` (default: 127.0.0.1)

-p <port> port of the `balboa-backend` (default: 4242)

-v increase verbosity; can be passed multiple times

-d <remote-dump-path> unused/ignored (default: -)

Command replay:

replay a previously generated database dump

-d <path> database dump file or `-` for stdin (default: -)

-h <host> ip address of the `balboa-backend` (default: 127.0.0.1)

-p <port> port of the `balboa-backend` (default: 4242)

-v increase verbosity; can be passed multiple times

Examples

balboa-backend-console jsonize -r /tmp/pdns.dmp lz4cat /tmp/pdns.dmp.lz4 | balboa-backend-console jsonize

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 12 (Bookworm): the text shown here
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)

From balboa-backend-common 2.0.0+ds-7+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.