Advantages over backing up folders manually?
mdhoney opened this issue · 2 comments
Your new tool seems to have been sent from heaven! I am just in the process of offloading some BackInTime (rsync + hardlinks) backups (on a laptop) to Borg on a NAS.
So far I had been doing this manually, for example:
borg create --stats --progress ::20200531-032853-565 20200531-032853-565
for each of the timestamped directories.
If I use borg-import on the root folder, what will I gain over my more manual method? Can I tell borg-import to only import a subset of these snapshots?
Anyway thanks, great work @ThomasWaldmann!
If you do it manually, please note that you may give some --timestamp (or so) option, if you want to replicate given timestamps.
borg-import isn't quite new, exists since quite a while. in fact relatively long, so i do not remember all the details and would have to read the source again. :-)
if you understand python, it might be quicker if you read it yourself (if the docs do not answer your questions).
OK, I've read a bit in the source now anyway and will update the readme with some advantages.