[Borgbackup] Two Users, 1 repository

[Bzzzz]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:24:26 -0600
Joseph Hesse <joehesse at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jo,

> My wife and I use different linux laptops and we want to share a 
> repository by moving an external hard drive from one laptop to the 
> other.  Sharing a repository seems good to me since we have many 
> identical files on our computers.

This may not be the idea of the year (though, it'll end in a few days;-p)
see: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html 1st paragraph.

In fact, I don't think that deduplication would bring you anything
interesting in terms of taken place on the HD as far as you just have
two machines to backup (and note that because of the exclusive lock, you
won't be able to backup them simultaneously.)

IMHO, Compression is enough for what you're after.

> Will this cause any problems, especially since .config/borg and 
> .cache/borg will be different on each laptop?

As the FAQ says, it'll rebuild each local cache on each an every backup.
 
> Thank you in advance for your response and for previous responses.

You're welcome.

Jean-Yves