[Borgbackup] question regarding restoration of latest backup

[Marian Beermann]

You don't have to think about any of that.

You can create an archive.
You can extract it.
Deleting other archives makes no difference.

-Marian

PS: That's the trade-off made by Borg and similar software. Requires
more CPU and memory resources, but gets rid of inter-backup dependencies.

On 9/15/18 5:27 PM, Christian wrote:
> Hi altogether,
> 
> I´ve got a question regarding restoration of backups.
> 
> I looked at https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html
> for information. But somehow I couldn´t find what I was looking for.
> 
> Out of sheer interest:
> 
> Suppose I created a backup with "borg create /path/to/repo::Monday ~/src
> ~/Documents" .
> And the next day: "borg create --stats /path/to/repo::Tuesday ~/src
> ~/Documents" .
> 
> It says: "This backup will be a lot quicker and a lot smaller since only
> new never before seen data is stored."
> 
> O.K., I understand. But what if I wanted to restore the latest backup
> (the "Tuesday" one)?
> Since this one only holds the new data I suppose I´d have to keep the
> "Monday" backup, too.
> 
> But what would be the correct command? Would it be  "borg extract
> /path/to/repo::Tuesday" ?
> After all I want to retore the latest backup.
> Would "borg extract /path/to/repo::Tuesday"  take care of the "Monday"
> backup automatically since the bulk of the data is stored there?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> 
> Greetings
> Rosika
> 
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