Borgbase

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Create a free account at Borgbase (includes 10GB), which is enough for most peoples everyday data. Email, Documents etc.

Prequisites: #

Vorta is installed A repo has already been created with the associated SSH key.

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Get the URL path by pressing the copy/paste

  1. borg init -e repokey-blake2 ssh://xxxxxxx@yyyyyy.repo.borgbase.com/./repo
  2. borg create -v --stats ssh://xxxxxxx@yyyyyy.repo.borgbase.com/./repo::{hostname}-{user}-{now:%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S} /home/user/Documents

List #

borg list ssh://xxxxxxx@yyyyyy.repo.borgbase.com/./repo

Prune #

borg prune -v --progress --list ssh://xxxxxxx@yyyyyy.repo.borgbase.com/./repo --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=2 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=3 --keep-monthly=6

Mount #

mkdir borg-mount
borg mount ssh://xxxxxxx@yyyyyy.repo.borgbase.com/./repo borg-mount
ls -l borg-mount
umount borg-mount

There are various other commands like --exclude which filters what is bascked up.