---
name: "rdup-tr"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rdup"
version: "1.1.15-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rdup-tr"
---

# rdup-tr(1)

transform rdup output

## NAME

rdup-tr - transform rdup output

## SYNOPSIS

**rdup-tr** \[*OPTION*\]...

## DESCRIPTION

Transform rdup output into *something else*. Where *something else* can be a tar, cpio, pax archive or another rdup stream.

The rdup archive must be given on **rdup-tr**'s standard input.

You can select multiple types of output (-O flag), but you must be aware that you may loose some information in formats other than **rdup**'s own, see  the table below.

You may also supply **rdup-tr** with only a list of pathnames, this can  be selected with the -L flag.

The following table shows what happens with the output depending on the input.

- **0**

  OK

- **D**

  delete information is lost

- **H**

  hardlink information is lost

  | | | |
  | --- | --- | --- |
  | output | tar,cpio,pax | rdup |
  | input |  |
  | ------------- | ------------- | ------ |
  | rdup | D | 0 |
  | filelist | DH | H |
  |  |

## OPTIONS

- **-L**

  Select list input format. Normally **rdup-tr** accepts rdup output, with this option you can give it a list of path names. Note: with list input **rdup-tr** will \`stat()\` each file, so this can not be used in remote back ups.

- **-O**

  Output format. This can be 'tar', 'cpio', 'pax' or 'rdup'. It defaults to 'rdup'.

- **-X *key***

  Read the encryption key from the file key and encrypt all paths with Blowfish and this key and iv. After the encryption the binary data is converted into ASCII using an URL safe (Section 4 of RFC 3548) version of base64 encode.

  The encryption key must be on the first line and the key size must be 16 and 8 bytes for the iv, so 24 in total.

- **-Y *key***

  Read the decryption key from the file key and decrypt all paths with Blowfish and this key. Before the encryption the paths are converted to binary by using an URL safe version of base64 decode.

- **-c**

  Force output to the tty. Normally **rdup-tr** wants to see it's output redirected.

- **-v**

  Be more verbose. Print the processed file names to standard error.

- **-V**

  Print rdup-tr's version.

- **-h**

  A short help.

## EXAMPLES

The following is possible

 rdup -P gzip -P "mcrypt -f KEY -c" /dev/null /home \| \\\
  rdup-tr -O tar -X\<(echo secret) \| gzip \> \\\
  my-home-zipped-crypted-pathcrypted-tar.gz

That is: all files under /home are gzipped and encrypted on a *per* file basis (first line). Further more, all pathnames are Blowfish encrypted (second line) with the key 'secret'. This is put in a tar file, which is then compressed, resulting in the final output (final line).

Creating a compressed and encrypted tar archive out of a full rdup dump might be done as follows

 rdup -P gzip -P "mcrypt -f KEY -c" /dev/null /home \| \\\
  rdup-tr -O tar \> my-home-zipped-and-crypted.tar

Or even pack and unpack it on the fly

 rdup -P gzip -P "mcrypt -fKEY -c" /dev/null /home \| rdup-tr -Otar \| \\\
  ssh user@remotehost tar xvCf /tmp -

Or encryption with openssl

rdup -P "openssl enc -e -des-cbc -k secret" /dev/null /home

Or, compressing with gzip, encrypting with openssl and then compressing the entire archive yet again

 rdup -P gzip -P "openssl enc -e -des-cbc -k secret" /dev/null /home \| \\\
  gzip \> my\_compressed\_encrypted\_rdup\_archive.gz

## EXIT CODE

**rdup-tr** return a zero exit code on success, otherwise 1 is returned.

## AUTHOR

Written by Miek Gieben.

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to \<miek@miek.nl\>.

## SEE ALSO

http:/www.miek.nl/projects/rdup/ is the main site of rdup. Also see [rdup(1)](/rdup/1.md), [rdup-up(1)](/rdup-up/1.md) and [rdup-backups(7)](/rdup-backups/7.md).

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Miek Gieben. This is free software. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Licensed under the GPL version 3. See the file LICENSE in the source distribution of rdup.