diff --git a/app.js b/app.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/app.js
+++ b/app.js
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ module.exports = {
       opts.COUCH_BUFFER_SIZE,
       opts.COUCH_PARALLELISM,
       opts.COUCH_LOG,
-      opts.COUCH_RESUME,
-      opts.OUTPUT
+      opts.COUCH_RESUME
       ).on('written', function(obj) {
         debug(' backed up batch', obj.batch, ' docs: ', obj.total, 'Time', obj.time);
         writeStream.write(JSON.stringify(obj.data) + '\n');
diff --git a/includes/backup.js b/includes/backup.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/includes/backup.js
+++ b/includes/backup.js
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ var processBatches = function(dbUrl, parallelism, log, batches, ee, start, grand
 };
 
 // backup function
-module.exports = function(dbUrl, blocksize, parallelism, log, resume, output) {
+module.exports = function(dbUrl, blocksize, parallelism, log, resume) {
   if (typeof blocksize === 'string') {
     blocksize = parseInt(blocksize);
   }
Remove unused output parameter to backup method

The `--output` argument is converted into a file in the application
code.

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