{"id":11382,"date":"2020-11-25T17:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2021-03-06T01:20:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T00:20:22","slug":"borgbackup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2020\/11\/25\/borgbackup\/","title":{"rendered":"BorgBackup \u2013 Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borgbackup.org\/\">https:\/\/www.borgbackup.org\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borg_(backup_software)\u2028\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borg_(backup_software)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attic_(backup_software)#Borg\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attic_(backup_software)#Borg<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlie.org\/Computers\/Software\/Internet\/Site_Management\/Backup\/\">https:\/\/www.curlie.org\/Computers\/Software\/Internet\/Site_Management\/Backup\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This utility lets me back up files resp. directories<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>to a target directory (which can be a &#8220;<em>network share<\/em>&#8220;)<\/li><li>as well as to a remote directory reachable through SSH.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its target is called a repository.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to browse the backups I can mount that repository to a local directory \u2013 Borg lets me mount a repository<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>from a local directory<\/li><li>but also from a remote directory reachable through SSH<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to a local directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favourite features of Borg:  On my NAS (which is where I SSH to) I can &#8220;<em>borg mount<\/em>&#8221; the back-ups created &#8220;<em>from remote<\/em>&#8221; (in &#8220;read-only&#8221; mode) \u2013 this is perfect, because I can browse my backups exactly where they are physically located, i.e. with minimal overhead, easy use of Unix \/ Linux commands for finding and inspecting files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Borg is perfect for backing up files from a desktop computer and also from a server computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Borg is open source and it comes free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Borg is rather easy to install.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like rsync Borg does not physically copy over a file, which is already in the repository, but it does everything to make the file appear as residing in the backup snapshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;network share&#8220;) as well as to a remote directory reachable through SSH. 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