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Commands

Besides backup and login (covered in Stages), a few standalone commands round out the workflow around a backup:

Command Purpose
init Create a template config file to fill in.
generate-key Create an age or OpenPGP key pair for encrypting backups.
decrypt Decrypt files a backup wrote.

A typical first-time setup uses them in this order:

./imap-backup-tool init                    # 1. create a config file
./imap-backup-tool generate-key            # 2. create a key pair to encrypt to
./imap-backup-tool --config config.yaml backup --all --attachments