[Borgbackup] Problem: multiple repos with same ID

[Default User]

On Fri, 2023-07-21 at 02:51 +0200, Bzzzz wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:23:52 -0400
> Default User <hunguponcontent at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> wild guess : your USB disks are mounted on /DISK_A and /DISK_B (or
> /whatever/DISK_?) for clarity and discrimination, perhaps even using
> PARTLABEL or LABEL instead of UUID or PARTUUID.
> 
> > Advice/comments welcome. 
> > But please, "no bully".
> 
> If you don't have a gazillion yottabyte to backup, the fastest way to
> solve this is to recreate a fresh backup from scratch.
> 
> This is often the best solution when something went wrong to avoid
> losing hours or days of researches - there's of course a risk, but as
> far as SMART and dmesg do not show anything bad, it stays small.
> 
> Jean-Yves
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Hi, Jean-Yves!

The two external usb drives are shown by the "mount" command as:
"/dev/sda1 on/ media-[user]/HDD00001"
and
"/dev/sdb1 on /media/[user]/HDD00002" 

Borg info is of course not available for Repository 1, but for
Repository 2, it reports:

               Original size      Compressed size    Deduplicated size
All archives:        2.51 TB              2.37 TB             37.73 GB

               Unique chunks         Total chunks
Chunk index:           54280              2306762

df -h shows /home as 30Gb used, 159Gb available.
(All data in /home would be in /home/[user]/).

So, a fresh backup (or two) would not be trivial, but should be doable.
But of course this is current data only. It does not include any
"historical" data. It would of course only move from this time forward.

Note: I have just been using borg (Vorta) to do daily backups of
/home/[user]/, and nothing else.