[Borgbackup] When is the cache rebuilt?

[Thomas Waldmann]

On 30.03.2018 18:16, Dave Cottingham wrote:
> borg is spending this week doing a cache rebuild, and I'm trying to
> figure out the cause so I can avoid it in the future. I did notice that
> due to ntpd failure the system time on the client was quite different
> from the time on the server. Would this be expected to trigger a cache
> rebuild? If so, how different would the time have to be to cause this
> problem?

It is not time based, but based on the manifest hash.

If that differs from what the cache was built from, it will rebuild.

You can avoid that by having a separate repo per borg client.


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