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I made an account with rsync.net for backups but am having issues setting them up with the GNOME Project's Pika Backup. I set the location as: ssh://<username>@<username>.rsync.net/~/...
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I have a server called publicserver on the public internet, and a second server (called privateserver) behind a NAT firewall. I also have a client PC (client, running Linux) behind another NAT ...
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General overview With BorgBackup, I do a backup of my whole $HOME. However, some files (all located on ~/.local/share/) occur a rights error. Probably cause it’s ephemeral files belonging to root, I ...
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I use Borgmatic(version 1.9.5) in order to dump backups (fs & databases). TODO this, I must create 2 backups repositories : local folder and cloud storage. Into my machine, the archive is ...
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I have upgraded my Debian server (from bullseye to bookworm), hosted at Hetzner. I use their Storage Box + borg as one of means of backup. However, since the upgrade, all my attempts to run borg end ...
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I have used an external disk to backup a laptop, for several months, using Borg-Vorta, under Linux Mint 21.3. The laptop has had a major failure, and is no more accessible. Now I have a new laptop, on ...
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Using borg backup, it is quite easy to restore (extract) a specific file X from an archive to the current location . using $ borg extract /path/to/repo::my-files home/USERNAME/X I like to extract ...
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I want to backup backintime-data from an internet-facing, remote machine running debian 11 (src). That is the hardlinks-part from the title. I want to back it up to a (very dumb) NAS (dest) in the ...
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I'm trying to setup an automated backup system to backup my Raspberry Pi's data to my Mac Mini. However, calling neither borg init nor borg create from the RPi to the remote Mac Mini repo host seems ...
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What should we keep in mind when using CACHEDIR.TAG and .nobackup? Are these synonyms, or should we expect that programs handle these differently?
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I have a borg backup system for some time now. The target is cloud storage, accessed by ssh. This is SSH command line from debug: SSH command line: ['ssh', '-i', '/root/.ssh/id_rsa', '-p', '23', '<...
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I am trying to use borg backup and am running into an issue with SSH. I am backing up some root files such as /var/www/html, therefore I require root permissions, so I need to run the backup script as ...
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I'm trying to run the borg mount in Borg Backup, but it's saying that fusermount3 is not installed. fuse: failed to exec fusermount3: No such file or directory Googling this problem isn't helping. I ...
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Currently I have Borg archives being creative hourly, via a cron script, for directories I'd like to be backed up. However, this is not exactly ideal. Ideally, I'd like backups to be created more than ...
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Using borg create, I want to exclude a folder, but with some exceptions. Specifically, I want to exclude all paths subordinate to the AppData folder, except for the ones that are bookmark related, ...
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I am fully aware that questions like this one have been asked multiple times. However, since reading lots of documentation of various backup tools didn't answer all my questions, I think its fine to ...
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When the borg create command is used with the --progress argument, it output like this: 5.50 GB O 5.10 GB C 23.95 kB D 15600 N /path/to/current/file/being/processed I was able to locate what the ...
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I need to backup data using Borg Backup from a remote server to a local server (raspberry-pi like - it is actually Yunohost) equipped with a 2 slots storage bay. I would like to have identical copies ...
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I've been trying to setup a borg automated backup script following the documentation. For some reason my script fails to see its variables while I'm trying to write to a sudo protected encrypted drive....
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I recently had to restore the disk with borg. So via live linux, I entered my disk file system, deleted everything (root /), and restored a backup of a specific date. Now I ask myself: do you need to ...
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I want to backup some files that can only be read as root to a remote repository that only my user has access to. If I run borg as myself using /etc as my source I'll get permission-denied errors ...
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I backup all my files (with borgbackup) every 2-3 months to an external harddisk I store off-site. The problem I want to solve is how to protect the files that changed since the last backup. These are ...
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I am looking for a way to backup one filesystem by borg and I do not want it to following mount points to another partitions. A mechanism like the flag -x in rsync. I feel that I missed something ...
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I’m running a offsite backup with borg backup (client & server version: 1.1.10). My biggest repository gets stuck on the status "Remote: Replaying segments 0%". I had the same status for my ...
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Consider that backups have been made to a remote repository, located on /mnt/backup on server. For non-Borg users, a repository consists of multiple archives. A single archive is created every time a ...
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Borg Backup always asks for the key passphrase when accessing a repository which was initialized in authenticated or authenticated-blake2 mode (see borg manual). However, it should in principle be ...
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I'm trying to make a log file for monitoring backup progress using borg deduplicating archiver. While I am logging, the file contains ^M control characters for each line despite running the script on ...
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I've been using borg-backup for the past few weeks (on Ubuntu 16.04). Every time I need to mount a backup I've used sudo (sudo borg mount ...); if I don't, I end up with a permission error and the ...
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I am currently trying to set up automated backups using borg. For that, I have written a oneshot systemd user service (called borgbackup.service) that I am planning to start via a timer. Borg can ...
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Amazon Cloud Drive (acd) offers "unlimited" storage for a very affordable price. I wonder, if there are any backup solutions under linux that are usable with it. I am aware of acd_cli. With this it ...
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I'm using the following script to backup, using Borg Backup. But I'm running into an odd problem Part of the script below does not execute. The script follows, then the output SCRIPT: #!/bin/bash ...
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I want to filter standard error for a command that prints status information to standard error. In this case, Borg Backup. Specifically, the default output of borg check includes lines like: Checking ...
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