Questions tagged [borg-backup]
a deduplicating backup program with support for compression and authenticated encryption.
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How to access a windows shadow copy from WSL?
My aim is to use BorgBackup to back up a Windows 11 Pro machine. BorgBackup (v1.2.0) works fine within WSL (using Ubuntu 22.04) when the folder to back up is, e.g. /mnt/c it can back up the host. The ...
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borg backup is processing all files instead of modified
please advise how to correctly make borgbackup to process and copy only modified source files and their diffs to destination?
every week we make our data snapshot in cephfs:
/data/.snap/snap1/
/data/....
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Automating Borg Backup with cron fails
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I would like to use Borg Backup as a backup solution (backup on remote server). Borg offer sa very convenient sh script that they say you can just run as a cron job. While the script works ...
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Extract borg backup into remote server over SSH
I am using borg to take my system backup in Arch Linux.
I want to restore the backup in oracle virtual box and try to test. So I tried to do following thing.
The following things are done on oracle ...
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Do I need the key to extract a Borg backup from my USB flash drive?
I backed up some directories in an USB flash drive with Borg. Right now it only asks me for my passphrase if want to e.g. list the backups.
Will I need the key to extract the backup in a different ...
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How many files should the borg-backup cache contain and how can I clean it?
I use borg-backup for making backups. Because of filling my root partition, I encountered its cache files, that take up several GB:
# ls -al /root/.cache/borg/
total 4
drwx------ 1 root root 792 23 ...
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Sort the output of a Borg Backup archive listing
The command borg list $REPOSITORY::$ARCHIVE shows me a list of all files that are contained in a backup archive. That listing is unsorted (apparently).
How can I sort this listing by file name?
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how to check the remote BORG version
We are using a hosted BORG service and get these warnings when initializing a repo:
By default repositories initialized with this version will produce security
errors if written to with an older ...
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How to use exclude_from in borg?
According to this page it looks like the syntax of an exclude file should be
R /home/webserver/
- .dat1/
- .dat2
- .dat3*
- .dat4/Images\ System/*
- .compile/*/*/Cache
but all of these directories ...
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borg (borgbackup) and rsync to rsyncnet?
I run borgbackup on my laptop every 6 hours.
I want to keep a copy of my backups on rsyncnet
My laptop is not always connected to the internet, or it might be on a slow internet, so I figured it ...
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Is it possible to merge two borg repositories?
I use borg as a backup solution for my Linux machine.
I have two distinct borg repositories, let's call them
/path/to/borg/repository/first/
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/path/to/borg/repository/second/
I need to merge ...
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Can I backup with borg to Amazon Glacier?
I found that Amazon's Web Services, especially Glacier, are a very cost-effective way of storing data online. I'm wondering whether I can use them to backup my data with Borg Backup, which is an ...
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