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Merge pull request #2035 from ThomasWaldmann/docs-backup-from-stdin

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borg create: document how to backup stdin, fixes #2013
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enkore 2017-01-14 00:27:18 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -1311,8 +1311,12 @@ def build_parser(self, args=None, prog=None):
create_epilog = textwrap.dedent("""
This command creates a backup archive containing all files found while recursively
traversing all paths specified. The archive will consume almost no disk space for
files or parts of files that have already been stored in other archives.
traversing all paths specified. When giving '-' as path, borg will read data
from standard input and create a file 'stdin' in the created archive from that
data.
The archive will consume almost no disk space for files or parts of files that
have already been stored in other archives.
The archive name needs to be unique. It must not end in '.checkpoint' or
'.checkpoint.N' (with N being a number), because these names are used for