---
name: "kup-daemon"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kup-backup"
version: "0.10.0-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kup-daemon"
---

# kup-daemon(1)

a background program to schedule and run Kup backup plans

## NAME

kup-daemon - a background program to schedule and run Kup backup plans

## SYNOPSIS

**kup-daemon** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Kup is a flexible backup solution for KDE using the backup storage system Bup. This allows it to quickly perform incremental backups, only saving the parts of files that has actually changed since last backup was taken.

**kup-daemon** is a command which start a program in background to schedule and run Kup backup plans if their destination devices are available. It is usually executed at the desktop session startup.

## OPTIONS

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

- **-v, --version**

  Show version information.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options and basic help.

- **--author**

  Show author information.

- **--license**

  Show license information.

- **--desktopfile \<file name\>**

  The base file name of the desktop entry for this application.

## SEE ALSO

[**kup-filedigger**(1)](/kup-filedigger/1.md)\

## AUTHORS

kup-daemon was written by Simon Persson \<simonpersson1@gmail.com\>.

This manual page was written by Thomas Pierson \<contact@thomaspierson.fr\> for the **Debian** system (and may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.