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+title: "Borg Backup"
+date: 2019-05-21T22:35:31-04:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+I started using [Borg Backup](https://www.borgbackup.org/) in order to efficiently and securely do my backups. I did some research before choosing this solution as I required three things:
+
+- Compression
+- Encryption
+- Deduplication
+
+Each point is important on their own. Ideally I would be able to put this onto a cloud solution. Due to this I would want compression and deduplication to keep my costs down and encryption in order to maintain privacy.
+
+Luckily Borg does all of these things and more! It's also easily available on the AUR and the Ubuntu repositories.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+This will be a short post just describing the basic usage of the tool. I haven't fully implemented this tool yet so forgive me if this doesn't match your exact use case. This is also a great way for me to document the basic commands for myself as well.
+
+First to initialize a borg repo encrypted with a password at `repolocation`:
+
+```bash
+borg init --encryption=repokey repolocation
+```
+
+Then to create a backup in the repo with key `backup1`:
+
+```bash
+borg create --stats --progress --compression lzma repolocation::backup1 folderToBackup
+```
+
+You can actually replace the compression algorithm if wanted, here is a short description from their [website](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/):
+
+- lz4 (super fast, low compression)
+- zstd (wide range from high speed and low compression to high compression and lower speed)
+- zlib (medium speed and compression)
+- lzma (low speed, high compression)
+
+To list what backups you have in the repo:
+
+```bash
+borg list repolocation
+```
+
+To mount and unmount the repository
+
+```bash
+borg mount repolocation mountlocation
+```
+
+```bash
+borg umount mountlocation
+```
+