borgbackup/docs/quickstart_example.rst.inc

1. Before a backup can be made, a repository has to be initialized::

    $ borg -r /path/to/repo repo-create --encryption=repokey-aes-ocb

2. Back up the ``~/src`` and ``~/Documents`` directories into an archive called
   *docs*::

    $ borg -r /path/to/repo create docs ~/src ~/Documents

3. The next day, create a new archive using the same archive name::

    $ borg -r /path/to/repo create --stats docs ~/src ~/Documents

   This backup will be much quicker and much smaller, since only new,
   never-before-seen data is stored. The ``--stats`` option causes Borg to
   output statistics about the newly created archive such as the deduplicated
   size (the amount of unique data not shared with other archives)::

    Repository: /path/to/repo
    Archive name: docs
    Archive fingerprint: bcd1b53f9b4991b7afc2b339f851b7ffe3c6d030688936fe4552eccc1877718d
    Time (start): Sat, 2022-06-25 20:21:43
    Time (end):   Sat, 2022-06-25 20:21:43
    Duration: 0.07 seconds
    Utilization of maximum archive size: 0%
    Number of files: 699
    Original size: 31.14 MB
    Deduplicated size: 502 B

4. List all archives in the repository::

    $ borg -r /path/to/repo repo-list
    docs                                 Sat, 2022-06-25 20:21:14 [b80e24d2...b179f298]
    docs                                 Sat, 2022-06-25 20:21:43 [bcd1b53f...1877718d]

5. List the contents of the first archive::

    $ borg -r /path/to/repo list aid:b80e24d2
    drwxr-xr-x user   group          0 Mon, 2016-02-15 18:22:30 home/user/Documents
    -rw-r--r-- user   group       7961 Mon, 2016-02-15 18:22:30 home/user/Documents/Important.doc
    ...

6. Restore the first archive by extracting the files relative to the current directory::

    $ borg -r /path/to/repo extract aid:b80e24d2

7. Delete the first archive (please note that this does **not** free repository disk space)::

    $ borg -r /path/to/repo delete aid:b80e24d2

   Be careful if you use an archive NAME (and not an archive ID), as it might match multiple archives.
   Always use ``--dry-run`` and ``--list`` first!

8. Recover disk space by compacting the segment files in the repository::

    $ borg -r /path/to/repo compact -v

.. Note::
    Borg is quiet by default (it defaults to WARNING log level).
    You can use options like ``--progress`` or ``--list`` to get specific
    reports during command execution.  You can also add the ``-v`` (or
    ``--verbose`` or ``--info``) option to adjust the log level to INFO to
    get other informational messages.