borgmatic 2.1.10 has been released with support for making many options repository specific, command-line flags to disable hooks, and relative path support for ZFS, LVM, and Btrfs.

#borgmatic #borgbackup #backup

Release notes: https://projects.torsion.org/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/releases/tag/2.1.10

borgmatic 2.1.8 has been released with an InfluxDB database hook, a 1Password credential hook, and Borg 2 fixes.

#borgmatic #borgbackup #backup

Release notes: https://projects.torsion.org/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/releases/tag/2.1.8

I'm in the process of converting an mdadm RAID10 to a btrfs RAID10 while preserving the data. My current strategy is:

· ✅ 1 of the 4 disks → btrfs
· ✅ enlarge that disk with another random btrfs disk
· ⏳ copy the 6TB borg repo from the remaining 3 mdadm disks to the new small btrfs pool
· ❓`borg check` the copied backup
· ❓ 3 mdadm disks → btrfs
· ❓ add all to btrfs pool
· ❓ let pool balance
· ❓ remove the random disk again

So far it's been going well 😅

#borgBackup #raid #btrfs #mdadm

Did take a couple of hours but i reworked some parts of my Borgbackup scripts yesterday. Instead of having one big setup i splitted it so that every service has its own script, which starts / stops the dockers and has the correct patterns to only backup what is really necessary. Althought i am not quite done, because that was only one of my servers 😭️
@homelab #selfhosting #backup #borgbackup

#HomeServer running #Proxmox died. Inexplicable input/output errors in all VMs and containers. EXT filesystems keep spouting errors even though I shut everything down. The only thing that still works is #BorgBackup. I will have to rebuild this thing. I named it "The Other Castle", after a historic piece of music by a dear friend of mine. The new home server will need a new name... Any suggestions?

I just found out that @borgbackup #Borg #BorgBackup is vibe coded now. That's a tragedy. Really upsetting, to be honest.

I've been safeguarding priceless data with Borg for years, but I obviously can't entrust something so important to code that wasn't written by skilled hands and reviewed by skilled minds.

What full-system #backup software for #Linux do people recommend instead?

#BorgBackup's new website is mind-blowing! Well done to whoever made the upgrade.

https://www.borgbackup.org/

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On #Android? Looking for a backup solution that doesn't rely on a big commercial service or require setting up and securing an entirely new server?

I wrote a little blog post on how I use #Termux and #BorgBackup to back up my phone to a server of mine over plain SSH. It includes some nuggets 😂 like using the SSH `command` directive to prevent the backup user from getting full shell access.

Curious? Head over to:
https://fabionatali.com/posts/backing-up-my-android-phone-with-termux-and-borgbackup/index.html

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#selfhosting #freesoftware

Can anyone guess what my fix was for ”Why is Mattermost always down in the early morning hours!?” 😅

Hint: Maybe #borgBackup should by default ignore the very repo it is backup-ing into...

UPDATE: Sorry, wrongly blamed @borgbackup - the backup included a #btrfs #snapper snapshots directory (which itself included the borg repo *several times* 😅). Although the inodes are equal, so borg could check that...

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Matplotlib plot titled "BorgBackup Duration". x-axis: time (months from 2026-03 to 2026-07), y-axis: hours. A blue curve starts at zero and is now at around 9 hours.