/borg-backup-script

Primary LanguageClojure

Borg Instructions

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prerequisites

  • install babashka
  • config file

    • .edn file

      {:repo-path "/path/to/repo"
 :patterns-path "/path/to/borg_patterns.lst"
 :dir-to-backup "/path/to/backup"

    • set environment variable BORG_BB_CONFIG_PATH

backup

  • plug in ext hd

  • this

    cd ~/dev/repos/borg-backup-script
bb backup # this is a dry run - shows what will happen
bb backup prod

other commands

  • list backups bb repo-do list
  • compact bb repo-do compact
  • delete
    • dry run bb delete-backup backup-name
    • prod bb delete-backup --prod backup-name

commonly used plain borg commands

prereq - show repo path

  • $ cat $BORG_BB_CONFIG_PATH
  • look at :repo-path property

common commands

# show backup names (datetime)
bb repo-do list
borg list <repo-path>::<datetime>
borg info <repo-path>::<datetime>