autorestic/docs/pages/cli/backup.md
Duru Can Celasun 39f4f87ce3
feat: Add --dry-run to backup command (#438)
Restic supports --dry-run for backups since 0.13.0 [1] and this adds
support for that.

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# Backup
```bash
autorestic backup [-l, --location] [-a, --all] [--dry-run]
```
Performs a backup of all locations if the `-a` flag is passed. To only backup some locations pass one or more `-l` or `--location` flags.
The `--dry-run` flag will do a dry run showing what would have been deleted, but won't touch the actual data.
```bash
# All
autorestic backup -a
# Some
autorestic backup -l foo -l bar
```
## Specific location
`autorestic` also allows selecting specific backends for a location with the `location@backend` syntax.
```bash
autorestic backup -l location@backend
```