Kapsul is a tool that allows you to run most plakar sub-commands directly on .ptar archives. It transparently mounts the archive as an in-memory, read-only Plakar repository, enabling inspection, restoration, and diffing operations without extracting the archive.

• Efficient access to .ptar archives
• Supports most plakar commands
• No persistent state or extraction required

go install github.com/PlakarKorp/kapsul@v0.0.0-beta.10

kapsul [-c <cores>] [-f <archive>] <subcommand> [...]

• -c <cores>: Limit number of CPU cores used
• -f <archive>: Path to .ptar archive

The following plakar sub-commands are supported:

• archive
• cat
• check
• create
• diff
• digest
• help
• info
• locate
• ls
• mount
• restore
• server
• ui
• version

• KAPSUL_PASSPHRASE: Passphrase to unlock the encrypted archive

Inspect the list of snapshots inside an archive:

kapsul -f backup.ptar ls

Create a new snapshot of the current directory:

kapsul -f backup-new.ptar create .

Restore the file notes.md from snapshot abcd inside the archive:

kapsul -f backup.ptar restore -to . abcd:notes.md

Launch the ui

kapsul -f backup.ptar ui

• plakar(1): The underlying backup engine
• ptar(5): Archive format used by kapsul

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