[Borgbackup] round robin

[richard lucassen]

On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:36:08 +0200
Thomas Waldmann <tw at waldmann-edv.de> wrote:

> > I'm new to borgbackup and I'd like to run a round robin backup,
> > e.g. a daily backup Sunday, Monday etc.
> 
> Why do you want to do it like that?

Because I'm lazy :)

> Considering a likely high deduplication between archives, there is no 
> reason to just have 5 or 7.
> 
> borg prune offers a good means to not let the amount of archives grow 
> while still having quite some history.

ok, I'll have a look at that

> > but I can't find an option to overwrite an archive.
> 
> Because you can't. You need a unique new name for each archive.
> 
> The placeholder {now} is a nice way to achieve that.
> 
> Like: myserver-homes-{now} as archivename.
> 
> > Or should I simply delete the archive and create a new one?
> 
> Yes, that is of course possible, but not the usual way.

Ok, thnx, I think, as a newbie to Borg, I missed something crucial
somewhere. I'll have a closer look at "prune" as a start :)

R.

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