knowledge/technology/applications/backup/borg.md

obj	website	repo
application	https://www.borgbackup.org/	https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

Borg Backup

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BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.

The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups since only changes are stored. The authenticated encryption technique makes it suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.

Usage

Create a new repo:

borg init -e repokey /path/to/repo

Create a backup:

borg create -v --progress --stats /path/to/repo::ARCHIVE_NAME ~/Documents

List contents:

borg list /path/to/repo # List all archives
borg list /path/to/repo::ARCHIVE # List content of Archive

Extract archive:

borg extract /path/to/repo::ARCHIVE

Delete archive:

borg delete /path/to/repo::ARCHIVE

Garbage Collect Repo:

borg compact /path/to/repo