---
name: "bu2sw3"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-backup2swift"
version: "0.8-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bu2sw3"
---

# bu2sw3(1)

backup data to OpenStack Swift

## NAME

bu2sw - backup data to OpenStack Swift

## SYNOPSIS

**bu2sw** \[*options*\] *(file\|directory)*\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **bu2sw** commands.

**bu2sw** is a command line tool for backup data to OpenStack Swift. provides features are command line interface, and backup rotatition.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-V, --version**

  Show program's version number.

- **-c CONFIG, --config CONFIG**

  Specify configuration file

- **--container CONTAINER**

  Specify container name (default: FQDN of host when executes this command)

- **-l, --list**

  Listing object data

- **-v, --verbose**

  list verbose

- **-p PATH \[PATH ...\], --path PATH \[PATH ...\]**

  Backup target files/directory path

- **-s STDIN --stdin STDIN**

  Backup target files from stdin pipe or redirect, and specify backup object name

- **-r RETRIEVE \[RETRIEVE ...\], --retrieve RETRIEVE \[RETRIEVE ...\]**

  Retrieve backup data

- **-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT**

  Specify file path of retrieved object (only retrieving simple object)

- **-d DELETE \[DELETE ...\], --delete DELETE \[DELETE ...\]**

  Delete backup data

- The programs are documented by

  ## SEE ALSO

*README.rst*.

## AUTHOR

backup2swift was written by Kouhei Maeda \<mkouhei@palmtb.net\>.

This manual page was written by Kouhei Maeda \<mkouhei@palmtb.net\>. for the Debian project (and may be used by others).