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Borg Backup Intro
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https://github.com/borgbackup/borg | |
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/internals/data-structures.html#chunker-details | |
1.) Init New Repo | |
borg init --encryption repokey-blake2 /Volumes/63614TB/COMBINED_BACKUP/BORG | |
2.) Export and Save the Key | |
borg key export /Volumes/63614TB/COMBINED_BACKUP/BORG | |
# BORG_KEY asdfasdfasdfasdf | |
3.) Save the Passphrase and Key in Bitwarden | |
4.) Edit the config file in the archive folder | |
# so we can store on 100 gb M-disks | |
Change : | |
segments_per_dir = 10 | |
max_segment_size = 90000000 | |
5.) Add a Folder to the archive | |
borg create --verbose --stats --progress --compression lz4 /Volumes/63614TB/COMBINED_BACKUP/BORG::TMP2 ~/TMP2 | |
6.) Update the Folder | |
borg update --verbose --stats --progress --compression lz4 /Volumes/63614TB/COMBINED_BACKUP/BORG::TMP2 ~/TMP2 | |
7.) Show Versions of a File | |
borg list --short --show-version /path/to/repo::my-backup |
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#!/bin/bash | |
# Set the path to your Borg repository | |
repo_path="/Volumes/63614TB/COMBINED_BACKUP/Dropbox" | |
folder_path="/Users/morpheous/Dropbox/School/WSU/2023" | |
export BORG_PASSPHRASE="asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf" | |
# Set the name of the archive | |
folder_name="School" | |
# Get the current timestamp | |
timestamp=$(date +%d%b%Y-%H%M%S | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]') | |
# Create a new archive with the timestamp as the archive name | |
borg create --verbose --stats --progress --compression lz4 "$repo_path::$folder_name-$timestamp" "$folder_path" | |
sleep 1 | |
# Prune old backups, keeping only the most recent backups | |
borg prune --verbose --stats --progress "$repo_path" --keep-last=7 |
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