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Usage & Limitations
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What is the difference between a repo on an external hard drive vs. repo on a server?
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If Borg is running in client/server mode, the client uses SSH as a transport to
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talk to the remote agent, which is another Borg process (Borg is installed on
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the server, too). The Borg server is doing storage-related low-level repo
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operations (get, put, commit, check, compact), while the Borg client does the
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high-level stuff: deduplication, encryption, compression, dealing with
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archives, backups, restores, etc., which reduces the amount of data that goes
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over the network.
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When Borg is writing to a repo on a locally mounted remote file system, e.g.
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SSHFS, the Borg client only can do file system operations and has no agent
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running on the remote side, so *every* operation needs to go over the network,
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which is slower.
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Can I backup from multiple servers into a single repository?
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