Full system backup on a remote server with Borg

Question

I'm trying to do a full system backup on my remote server. I want to use Borg for this process because it has deduplication so it only copies files that are different and thus doesn't use as much space as a regular backup. Currently I'm using the command that follows:

sudo borg create --stats --progress --one-file-system --compression lz4 backup::Monday /run/media/archie/server/{bin,boot,etc,home,lib,lib64,opt,root,run,sbin,srv,tmp,usr}

This doesn't look like an optimal solution so how can I make it better? Or is there any other tool with deduplication for this job?

It looks messy and I don't think this is an optimal solution. — Enes Doğan, Jul 14 '21 at 18:51
{bin,boot,etc,home,lib,lib64...} bit is quite messy and if there were to be other files added this script won't back them up. — Enes Doğan, Jul 14 '21 at 18:54

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 14 '21 at 21:06

I've solved the problem with this script:

borg create --stats --progress --compress lz4 --one-file-system \
    --exclude $SERVER/dev \
    --exclude $SERVER/mnt \
    --exclude $SERVER/proc \
    --exclude $SERVER/run \
    --exclude $SERVER/swapfile \
    --exclude $SERVER/tmp \
    --exclude $SERVER/sys \
    --exclude $SERVER/lost+found \
    $BACKUP::$DAY $SERVER

Full system backup on a remote server with Borg

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