borgmatic - backups manager for borgbackup
borgmatic [
options]
A simple wrapper script for the Borg backup software that creates and prunes
backups. If none of the action options are given, then borgmatic defaults to:
prune, create, and check archives.
- -h, --help
- Show this help message and exit
- -c [CONFIG_PATHS [CONFIG_PATHS ...]], --config
[CONFIG_PATHS [CONFIG_PATHS ...]]
- Configuration filenames or directories, defaults to:
/etc/borgmatic/config.yaml /etc/borgmatic.d
/root/.config/borgmatic/config.yaml
- --excludes EXCLUDES_FILENAME
- Deprecated in favor of exclude_patterns within
configuration
- -n, --dry-run
- Go through the motions, but do not actually write to any
repositories
- -nc, --no-color
- Disable colored output
- -v {0,1,2}, --verbosity {0,1,2}
- Display verbose progress to the console (from none to lots:
0, 1, or 2)
- --syslog-verbosity {0,1,2}
- Display verbose progress to syslog (from none to lots: 0,
1, or 2). Ignored when console is interactive
- --version
- Display installed version number of borgmatic and exit
Specify zero or more actions. Defaults to prune, create, and check. Use
–help with action for details:
- init (--init, -I)
- Initialize an empty Borg repository
- prune (--prune, -p)
- Prune archives according to the retention policy
- create (--create, -C)
- Create archives (actually perform backups)
- check (--check, -k)
- Check archives for consistency
- extract (--extract, -x)
- Extract a named archive to the current directory
- list (--list, -l)
- List archives
- info (--info, -i)
- Display summary information on archives
The borgmatic source code and all documentation may be downloaded from
<
https://github.com/witten/borgmatic>
Dan Helfman <
[email protected]>.