{"id":11572,"date":"2021-03-06T01:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=11572"},"modified":"2021-03-06T08:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T07:36:32","slug":"borgbackup-you-cannot-remove-single-files-from-an-archive-but-you-can-remove-entire-archives-from-a-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2021\/03\/06\/borgbackup-you-cannot-remove-single-files-from-an-archive-but-you-can-remove-entire-archives-from-a-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"BorgBackup: you cannot remove single files from an &#8220;archive&#8221;, but you can remove entire &#8220;archives&#8221; from a repository"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/borgbackup.readthedocs.io\/en\/stable\/usage\/delete.html\">https:\/\/borgbackup.readthedocs.io\/en\/stable\/usage\/delete.html<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I extended the &#8220;&#8211;exclude&#8221; list for my &#8220;borg create&#8221; accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will go and create a list of the fattest files on the repo in the future. That will help will adapting the &#8220;&#8211;exclude&#8221; list even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;&#8211;exclude&#8221; list for my &#8220;borg create&#8221; accordingly. I will go and create a list of the fattest files on the repo in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1472],"tags":[1483],"class_list":["post-11572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backups","tag-borgbackup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-30E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11573,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions\/11573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}