[Borgbackup] move borg repo including cache to new machine?

Thomas Waldmann tw at waldmann-edv.de
Fri Dec 28 11:28:24 EST 2018


> i need to move a larger borg-repo to a new machine.
> 
> apparently, after moving everything (cache dir, repo-dir and staging-dir which is rsynced) ,  borg is re-chunking everything and creating a new cache for existing source location.
> 
> does somebody know why and how to avoid this?

If you moved the repo "as is" and everything else stayed "as is", it
should not do that.

Not sure why you mention the cache? It is client-side, so if you only
moved the repo, the client side cache does not need moving at all.

Also, what do you mean with staging-dir?



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