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.. include:: create.rst.inc
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Examples
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# Backup ~/Documents into an archive named "my-documents"
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$ borg create /path/to/repo::my-documents ~/Documents
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# same, but list all files as we process them
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$ borg create --list /path/to/repo::my-documents ~/Documents
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# Backup ~/Documents and ~/src but exclude pyc files
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$ borg create /path/to/repo::my-files \
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~/Documents \
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~/src \
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--exclude '*.pyc'
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# Backup home directories excluding image thumbnails (i.e. only
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# /home/<one directory>/.thumbnails is excluded, not /home/*/*/.thumbnails etc.)
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$ borg create /path/to/repo::my-files /home \
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--exclude 'sh:/home/*/.thumbnails'
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# Backup the root filesystem into an archive named "root-YYYY-MM-DD"
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# use zlib compression (good, but slow) - default is lz4 (fast, low compression ratio)
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$ borg create -C zlib,6 --one-file-system /path/to/repo::root-{now:%Y-%m-%d} /
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# Backup a remote host locally ("pull" style) using sshfs
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$ mkdir sshfs-mount
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$ sshfs root@example.com:/ sshfs-mount
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$ cd sshfs-mount
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$ borg create /path/to/repo::example.com-root-{now:%Y-%m-%d} .
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$ cd ..
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$ fusermount -u sshfs-mount
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# Make a big effort in fine granular deduplication (big chunk management
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# overhead, needs a lot of RAM and disk space, see formula in internals
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# docs - same parameters as borg < 1.0 or attic):
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$ borg create --chunker-params buzhash,10,23,16,4095 /path/to/repo::small /smallstuff
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# Backup a raw device (must not be active/in use/mounted at that time)
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$ dd if=/dev/sdx bs=4M | borg create --chunker-params fixed,4194304 /path/to/repo::my-sdx -
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# No compression (none)
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$ borg create --compression none /path/to/repo::arch ~
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# Super fast, low compression (lz4, default)
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$ borg create /path/to/repo::arch ~
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# Less fast, higher compression (zlib, N = 0..9)
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$ borg create --compression zlib,N /path/to/repo::arch ~
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# Even slower, even higher compression (lzma, N = 0..9)
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$ borg create --compression lzma,N /path/to/repo::arch ~
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# Only compress compressible data with lzma,N (N = 0..9)
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$ borg create --compression auto,lzma,N /path/to/repo::arch ~
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# Use short hostname, user name and current time in archive name
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$ borg create /path/to/repo::{hostname}-{user}-{now} ~
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# Similar, use the same datetime format as borg 1.1 will have as default
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$ borg create /path/to/repo::{hostname}-{user}-{now:%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S} ~
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# As above, but add nanoseconds
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$ borg create /path/to/repo::{hostname}-{user}-{now:%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f} ~
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# Backing up relative paths by moving into the correct directory first
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$ cd /home/user/Documents
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# The root directory of the archive will be "projectA"
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$ borg create /path/to/repo::daily-projectA-{now:%Y-%m-%d} projectA
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