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Checkpoints are made every 5 minutes by default so that if the backup is interrupted, most of you’ve uploaded so far is still up there. From the creator of Borg: 9:54 PM (ThomasWaldmann) if a backup is interrupted, borg will leave a .checkpoint archive behind. 9:54 PM (ThomasWaldmann) it makes these archives every , default is 5 minutes 9:55 PM (ThomasWaldmann) these archives reference all chunks that were transmitted up to its creation time. 9:56 PM (ThomasWaldmann) so, if you…

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There is a great coupon for borg and attic users. Which reduces the price to $0.03/GB/Month but without the same level of support the give normally. To run a command on rsync.net we need to use ssh -t as we are not given an interactive session. We can put the commands we want to run at the end of the ssh command. Run ssh -t borg-server pwd so we can find what full path looks like. It should look something…

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I need to retrieve a music file who’s hash has changed on my laptop and I’m not sure why. I know the exact path but lets pretend I don’t: borg list borg:borg-repo/ Which lists all the backups I’ve made, I want the latest music one which happens to be Music-2016-04-27 I can use borg list borg:borg-repo/::Music-2016-04-27 to list all files in that backup. The file I want is called 03 Liberty Bell.m4a borg list borg:borg-repo/::Music-2016-04-27 | grep “03 Liberty Bell.m4a”…

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borg check <repo> You can use –repair to try repair any inconsistencies. https://borgbackup.readthedocs.org/en/stable/usage.html#borg-check

borg break-lock [repo] Thanks to lfam on #borgbackup You need to make sure there are no other backups running, and then use borg break-lock as described in the manual: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.org/en/latest/internals.html?highlight=break-lock#lock-files You should check ps aux or just restart to ensure borg is not still running

Solved: Yes you can! Yes, you could just copy all the files. Make sure you do that while no backup is running. https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/master/docs/internals.rst#config-file: …It will not change if you move the repository around so you can make a local transfer then decide to move the repository to another (even remote) location at a later time. Just starting out with Borg (I only ask because with Arq moving files around actually broke backups) but can move backed up files to other…

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