From f8bb73732ce5ba47ab3efa54f7b7b492f5d5d488 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Engelbrecht Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 01:04:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] added doc for "pull" type backup over sshfs Fixes #900 --- docs/usage.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/usage.rst b/docs/usage.rst index d9212ef56..e9fa71795 100644 --- a/docs/usage.rst +++ b/docs/usage.rst @@ -271,6 +271,14 @@ Examples # use zlib compression (good, but slow) - default is no compression $ borg create -C zlib,6 /path/to/repo::root-{now:%Y-%m-%d} / --one-file-system + # Backup a remote host locally ("pull" style) using sshfs + $ mkdir sshfs-mount + $ sshfs root@example.com:/ sshfs-mount + $ cd sshfs-mount + $ borg create /path/to/repo::example.com-root-{now:%Y-%m-%d} . + $ cd .. + $ fusermount -u sshfs-mount + # Make a big effort in fine granular deduplication (big chunk management # overhead, needs a lot of RAM and disk space, see formula in internals # docs - same parameters as borg < 1.0 or attic):