[Borgbackup] Help with Initializing Remote Repository

[Samir Parikh]

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 4:09 AM kmq <kmq at omfa.de> wrote:
>
> The problem is likely exactly what the error message is saying:
>
> > root Remote: There is already something at /home/borg/borgbackup.
> > ('Remote Exception (see remote log for the traceback)', 'PathAlreadyExists')
>
> In other words:
>
> You already created the directory that borg is trying to initialize,
> so borg is helping you by not overwriting everything that might be in
> it.

I was under the impression that the target directory on the remote
system had to already exist before running the init command.

In the future, should I just let borg create the directory?  (I.e. it
doesn't matter if that directory does not already exist)?

Thank you for your response!