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restic rewrite [flags] [snapshotID ...]

The "rewrite" command excludes files from existing snapshots. It creates new snapshots containing the same data as the original ones, but without the files you specify to exclude. All metadata (time, host, tags) will be preserved.

The snapshots to rewrite are specified using the --host, --tag and --path options, or by providing a list of snapshot IDs. Please note that specifying neither any of these options nor a snapshot ID will cause the command to rewrite all snapshots.

The special tag 'rewrite' will be added to the new snapshots to distinguish them from the original ones, unless --forget is used. If the --forget option is used, the original snapshots will instead be directly removed from the repository.

Please note that the --forget option only removes the snapshots and not the actual data stored in the repository. In order to delete the no longer referenced data, use the "prune" command.

Exit status is 0 if the command was successful, and non-zero if there was any error.

-n, --dry-run[=false] do not do anything, just print what would be done

-e,  --exclude=[] exclude a

pattern (can be specified multiple times)

--exclude-file=[] read exclude patterns from a

file (can be specified multiple times)

--forget[=false] remove original snapshots after creating new ones

-h, --help[=false] help for rewrite

-H,  --host=[] only consider snapshots for this

host (can be specified multiple times)

--iexclude=[] same as --exclude

pattern but ignores the casing of filenames

--iexclude-file=[] same as --exclude-file but ignores casing of

filenames in patterns

--path=[] only consider snapshots including this (absolute)

path (can be specified multiple times)

--tag=[] only consider snapshots including

tag[,tag,...] (can be specified multiple times)

--cacert=[]

file to load root certificates from (default: use system certificates)

--cache-dir="" set the cache

directory. (default: use system default cache directory)

--cleanup-cache[=false] auto remove old cache directories

--compression=auto compression mode (only available for repository format version 2), one of (auto|off|max)

--insecure-tls[=false] skip TLS certificate verification when connecting to the repository (insecure)

--json[=false] set output mode to JSON for commands that support it

--key-hint=""

key ID of key to try decrypting first (default: $RESTIC_KEY_HINT)

--limit-download=0 limits downloads to a maximum

rate in KiB/s. (default: unlimited)

--limit-upload=0 limits uploads to a maximum

rate in KiB/s. (default: unlimited)

--no-cache[=false] do not use a local cache

--no-lock[=false] do not lock the repository, this allows some operations on read-only repositories

-o,  --option=[] set extended option (

key=value, can be specified multiple times)

--pack-size=0 set target pack

size in MiB, created pack files may be larger (default: $RESTIC_PACK_SIZE)

--password-command="" shell

command to obtain the repository password from (default: $RESTIC_PASSWORD_COMMAND)

-p,  --password-file=""

file to read the repository password from (default: $RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE)

-q, --quiet[=false] do not output comprehensive progress report

-r,  --repo=""

repository to backup to or restore from (default: $RESTIC_REPOSITORY)

--repository-file=""

file to read the repository location from (default: $RESTIC_REPOSITORY_FILE)

--tls-client-cert="" path to a

file containing PEM encoded TLS client certificate and private key

-v, --verbose[=0] be verbose (specify multiple times or a level using --verbose=n``, max level/times is 2)

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