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borgbackup is a deduplicating backup software
Installation
Installation
sudo apt install borgbackup
If you want the latest version, you can download a static build from releases or use this backport repo.
Usage
quickstart
Create a repo
borg init
# Create a repo without encryption
borg init --encryption=none ./testrepo
# If you want encryption
#borg init --encryption=repokey ./testrepo
Create a backup
borg create
The following will create a backup of ~/src titled Monday to the repo ./testrepo.
borg create --stats ./testrepo::Monday ~/src
- Notes
- Name placeholders: {now}, {utcnow}, {fqdn}, {hostname}, {user}
Examples
borg create \
--stats --show-rc \
./testrepo::'{hostname}-daily-{utcnow}' \
/src
Pruning backups
If you're scripting daily, weekly, or monthly backups, you'll probably want to prune old backups.
Resources
