borg Command Examples

Deduplicating backup tool. Create local or remote backups that are mountable as filesystems. More information: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/general.html.

• Initialize a (local) repository:

borg init {{path/to/repo_directory}}

• Backup a directory into the repository, creating an archive called "Monday":

borg create --progress {{path/to/repo_directory}}::{{Monday}} {{path/to/source_directory}}

• List all archives in a repository:

borg list {{path/to/repo_directory}}

• Extract a specific directory from the "Monday" archive in a remote repository, excluding all *.ext files:

borg extract {{user}}@{{host}}:{{path/to/repo_directory}}::{{Monday}} {{path/to/target_directory}} --exclude '{{*.ext}}'

• Prune a repository by deleting all archives older than 7 days, listing changes:

borg prune --keep-within {{7d}} --list {{path/to/repo_directory}}

• Mount a repository as a FUSE filesystem:

borg mount {{path/to/repo_directory}}::{{Monday}} {{path/to/mountpoint}}

• Display help on creating archives:

borg create --help