Tag: BorgBackup
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BorgBackup: you cannot remove single files from an “archive”, but you can remove entire “archives” from a repository
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/delete.html Why would I do that? Because that archive accidentally contains a huge ISO file. And there are enough archives around, so that deleting that single archive does not hurt. I extended the “–exclude” list for my “borg create” accordingly. I will go and create a list of the fattest files on the repo in…
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BorgBackup – Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(backup_software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_(backup_software)#Borg https://www.curlie.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Backup/ This utility lets me back up files resp. directories to a target directory (which can be a “network share“) as well as to a remote directory reachable through SSH. Its target is called a repository. In order to browse the backups I can mount that repository to a local directory –…