The xbcloud command-line options¶

Usage:

$ xbcloud put [OPTIONS]
$ xbcloud get [OPTIONS]
$ xbcloud delete [OPTIONS]

This document contains information on general options and the options available when you select the Swift authentication version using swift-auth-version.

The xbcloud binary has the following general command line options:

azure-access-key¶

Usage: --azure-access-key=name

The name of the Azure access-key

azure-container-name¶

Usage: --azure-container-name=name

The name of the Azure container

azure-development-storage¶

Usage: --azure-development-storage=name

If you run the Azurite emulator, use this option, and it works with the default credentials provided by Azurite. You can overwrite these default credentials with other options.

azure-endpoint¶

Usage: --azure-endpoint=name

The name of the Azure endpoint

azure-storage-account¶

Usage: --azure-storage-account=name

The name of the Azure storage account

azure-tier-class¶

Usage: --azure-tier-class=name

The name of the Azure tier-class. The possible values are:

Hot
Cool
Archive

cacert¶

Usage: --cacert=name

The path to the file with Certificate Authority (CA) certificates.

curl-retriable-errors¶

Usage: --curl-retriable-errors=name

Add a new cURL error code as retriable. For multiple codes, use a comma-separated list.

fifo-dir¶

Usage: --fifo-dir=name

The directory used to read or write named pipes. In the put mode, xbcloud reads from the named pipes. In the get mode, xbcloud writes to the named pipes.

fifo-streams¶

Usage: --fifo-streams=#

The number of parallel FIFO stream threads.

fifo-timeout¶

Usage: --fifo-timeout=#

The number of seconds to wait for the other end to open the stream. The default value is 60.

google-access-key¶

Usage: --google-access-key=name

The Google Cloud storage access key

google-bucket-name¶

Usage: --google-bucket-name=name

The Google Cloud storage bucket name

google-endpoint¶

Usage: --google-endpoint=name

The Google Cloud storage endpoint

google-region¶

Usage: --google-region=name

The Google Cloud storage region

google-secret-key¶

Usage: --google-secret-key=name

The Google Cloud storage secret key

google-session-token¶

Usage: --google-session-token=name

The Google Cloud storage session-token

google-storage-class¶

Usage: --google-storage-class=name

The Google Cloud storage storage class

The possible values are the following:

STANDARD
NEARLINE
COLDLINE
ARCHIVE

Usage: --header=name

Extra header

http-retriable-errors¶

Usage: --http-retriable-errors=name

Add a new http error code as retriable. For multiple codes, use a comma-separated list.

insecure¶

Usage: --insecure

Do not verify the certificate of the server.

max-backoff¶

Usage: --max-backoff=#

The maximum backoff delay, in milliseconds, between chunk upload or chunk download retries. The default value is 300000.

max-retries¶

Usage: --max-retires=#

The number of retries for chunk uploads or downloads after a failure. The default value is 10.

md5¶

Usage: --md5=name

Uploads an MD5 file into the backup directory.

parallel¶

Usage: --parallel=#

Defines the maximum number of concurrent upload/download requests. The default value is 1.

s3-access-key¶

Usage: --s3-access-key=name

The name of the s3 access key

s3-api-version¶

Usage: --s3-api-version=name

The name of the s3 API version

s3-bucket¶

Usage: --s3-bucket=name

The name of the s3 bucket

s3-bucket-lookup¶

Usage: --s3-bucket-lookup=name

The name of the s3 bucket lookup method

s3-endpoint¶

Usage: --s3-endpoint=name

The name of the s3 endpoint

s3-region¶

Usage: --s3-region=name

The name of the s3 region

s3-secret-key¶

Usage: --s3-secret-key=name

The name of the s3 secret key

s3-session-token¶

Usage: --s3-session-token=name

The name of the s3 session token

s3-storage-class¶

Usage: --s3-storage-class=name

The name of the s3 storage class and is used to pass custom storage class names provided by the other s3 implementations, such as MinIO.

The possible values are:

STANDARD
STANDARD_ID
GLACIER

storage¶

Usage: --storage=[S3|SWIFT|GOOGLE|AZURE]

Defines the Cloud storage option. xbcloud supports Swift, MinIO, Google, Azure, and AWS S3. The default value is swift.

swift-auth-url¶

Usage: --swift-auth-url=name

The Base URL of the Swift authentication service.

swift-container¶

Usage: --swift-container=name

The Swift container used to store backups.

swift-key¶

Usage: --swift-key

The Swift key/password (X-Auth-Key)

swift-storage-url¶

Usage: --swift-storage-url=name

If a name is specified, the xbcloud attempts to get the object-store endpoint for a given region from the keystone response. This option overrides that value.

swift-user¶

Usage: --swift-user=name

The Swift user name (X-Auth-User).

timeout¶

Usage: --timeout=#

The number of seconds to wait for activity on the TCP connection. The default value is 120. If the value is 0 (zero), there is no timeout.

verbose¶

Usage: --verbose

Turns on the cURL tracing.

Swift authentication options¶

The Swift specification describes several authentication options. The xbcloud tool can authenticate against keystone with API version 2 and 3.

swift-auth-version¶

Usage: --swift-auth-version=name

Defines the swift authentication version used.

The possible values are the following:

1.0 - TempAuth
2.0 - Keystone v2.0
3 - Keystone v3.

The default value is 1.0.

If `--swift-auth-version=2`, the additional options are:¶

swift-password¶

Usage: --swift-password=name

Swift password for the user

swift-region¶

Usage: --swift-region=name

Swift region object-store endpoint

swift-tenant¶

Usage: --swift-tenant=name

The Swift tenant name

Either of the --swift-tenant or --swift-tenant-id can be defined, but you should not use both options together. Both of these options are optional.

swift-tenant-id¶

Usage: --swift-tenant-id=name

The Swift tenant ID