[Borgbackup] Enhancement idea: archive tags

[Adrian Klaver]

On 03/09/2017 03:43 PM, Billy Charlton wrote:
> After spending so much time in the git universe, I find myself wishing I
> could apply additional tags to specific borg archives.
>
> I know borgbackup is primarily a backup solution and not source control.
> However, I do find borg's deduplication capabilities really useful in
> ways it may not have been originally intended! I envision archiving
> multiple versions of very large files -- sort of like git-lfs or
> git-fat, but with real deduplication. And then fetching archives using
> tags such as "latest".
>
> This could take form as a new command: `borg tag`:
>
> Create a new tag and point it to an existing archive:
>   borg tag [tag-name] [repo::archive-name]
>
> Delete a tag from a repo:
>   borg tag -d [tagname] [repo]
>
> List all tags and the archives they point to
>   borg tag --list [repo]
>
> Is this out of scope for this project? If so, is there perhaps another
> tool that is well-suited to this use case?

I don't have an opinion one way or the other. I do think you should 
probably submit this as a feature request here:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues

My guess is you will get more feedback there.



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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver at aklaver.com