[Borgbackup] Borg vs. full/incremental backup

[Felix Schwarz]

Am 06.04.21 um 12:41 schrieb Markus Schönhaber:
> As I understand it, that's different for a Borg repository. If a chunk
> in a repository gets corrupted, all files in all archives in this
> repository that reference this chunk are affected.
> Is my understanding correct?

Yes, that's my understanding as well.

> If yes, how do you cope with this / is there a "best practice"? Create
> multiple repositories? Use them in turn? Use them in parallel? Something
> else entirely?

This is what I'm doing:
- run "borg check" regularly to detect data corruption
- rsync the borg repo to a different data center
- backup important data to a second borg repo