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Usage examples for create format tags

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# Backup the root filesystem into an archive named "root-YYYY-MM-DD"
# use zlib compression (good, but slow) - default is no compression
NAME="root-`date +%Y-%m-%d`"
$ borg create -C zlib,6 /mnt/backup::$NAME / --one-file-system
$ borg create -C zlib,6 /mnt/backup::root-{now:%Y-%m-%d} / --one-file-system
# Make a big effort in fine granular deduplication (big chunk management
# overhead, needs a lot of RAM and disk space, see formula in internals
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# Even slower, even higher compression (N = 0..9)
$ borg create --compression lzma,N /mnt/backup::repo ~
# Format tags available for archive name:
# {now}, {utcnow}, {fqdn}, {hostname}, {user}, {pid}
# add short hostname, backup username and current unixtime (seconds from epoch)
$ borg create /mnt/backup::{hostname}-{user}-{now:%s} ~
.. include:: usage/extract.rst.inc
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