Questions tagged [borg-backup]
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Transfer today's borg backups to a different repo
Here's my current backup strategy. I have a bunch (let's say 200) of servers that run a periodic borg backup script (deployed via this ansible role: https://github.com/mad-ady/ansible-role-borgbackup) to a central backup server, over ssh.
Each…

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Full system backup on a remote server with Borg
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…

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Does SSHFS support ssh-agent forwarding?
I'd like to be able to mount my backup server on-demand by using my keys on my client terminal only as I don't leave my SSH keys on servers I manage.
Does SSHFS support ssh-gent forwarding and how?
Didn't find answers to that in the…

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Borg Backup not behaving as expected - new backup files each day
What I'm doing
I'm using Borg backup v1.1.0b6 on my production AWS Linux server. Borg is meant to be block based, deduplicating, and incremental. I've also tried borg-linux64 v1.1.6 with the same results.
My Observation
I'm finding that instead of…

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Borgmatic: deal with multiple different relative paths
I'm using borgmatic to backup my whole server. As I'm runing LVM, I mount LVM snapshots to /media/.. and back them up.
source_directories:
- /media/snapshot-root/
- /media/snapshot-var/
- /data/home
That results in paths inside the…

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Borg-Backup failed with Command in authorized_keys behind a ssh-tunnel?
I setup a PoC for a pull backup with Borg Backup.
In this example a client can only reach the backup server behind a proxy server.
In this case the server where Borg Backup is running open a temporary ssh tunnel over a proxy server and start the…

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Borg asking for key file when upgrading unencrypted repository
Evening,
So i have an unencrypted borg backup repository which im trying to upgrade. The problem is, when running the borg backup command borg replies with "no key file found for repository".
I'm a bit confused about this situation since the…

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Monitoring tool for remote borg repository
I am currently using Borg Backup which is connected to a remote repository hosted in Hetzner. Borg is being run daily via cron. While I place some log files to see if backup is working, I would like to ask if anybody know a good Borg UI-based…