[Borgbackup] question regarding restoration of latest backup

[Christian]

Hi Marian,


thank you so much for your fast answer.

Yet it´s not quite clear to me how it works.

Referring to my example: Do you say that I can delete the Monday-backup?
That would imply that all the data of the Monday-backup is present in
the Tuesday-backup as well.

I was of the opinion that the Tuesday-backup only holds the new data. Or
did I get it wrong?

Greetings
Rosika



Am 15.09.2018 um 17:37 schrieb 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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