[Borgbackup] Partclone, Borgbackup and Random Access?

[Marian Beermann]

You should be able to boot it when FUSE-mounting the repo/archive.

Cheers, Marian

On 22.07.2016 16:15, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> I wrote a script to backup the used sectors of a device directly to a
> compressed image with random access:
>   https://github.com/gmatht/joshell/blob/master/scripts/backup2vm
> These images provided easy per file access and can be booted in qemu.
>
> It doesn't seem to be possible to do this with partclone and borgbackup,
> the closest I can see is to run something like:
>   partclone ... | borg create repo::mypart -
> which isn't bootable but would be compressed, deduplicated, and
> shouldn't use too much space if I also backup files from the partition
> to the same borg repo.
>
> Has anyone done anything smarter than this?
>
>
> --
> John C. McCabe-Dansted
>
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