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title: "Borg Backup"
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date: 2019-05-21T22:35:31-04:00
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draft: false
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tags: ["Backup"]
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medium_enabled: true
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---
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**Note:** I switched to using [Restic](https://restic.net/)
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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:
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- Compression
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- Encryption
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- Deduplication
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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.
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Luckily Borg does all of these things and more! It's also easily available on the AUR and the Ubuntu repositories.
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## Getting Started
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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.
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First to initialize a borg repo encrypted with a password at `repolocation`:
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```bash
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borg init --encryption=repokey repolocation
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```
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Then to create a backup in the repo with key `backup1`:
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```bash
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borg create --stats --progress --compression lzma repolocation::backup1 folderToBackup
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```
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You can actually replace the compression algorithm if wanted, here is a short description from their [website](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/):
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- lz4 (super fast, low compression)
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- zstd (wide range from high speed and low compression to high compression and lower speed)
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- zlib (medium speed and compression)
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- lzma (low speed, high compression)
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To list what backups you have in the repo:
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```bash
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borg list repolocation
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```
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To mount and unmount the repository
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```bash
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borg mount repolocation mountlocation
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```
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```bash
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borg umount mountlocation
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```
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