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   prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 11:50:58 JST prettygood
   Borg is a really great backup system with really awful tooling and every time I have to fool with it, it puts me in a bad mood.
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     tehfishman (tehfishman@ioc.exchange)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 11:50:55 JST tehfishman

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     @prettygood I haven't fully dug into borgmatic just yet. I looked at their docs which also have a link to a very lengthy sample systemd unit file and decided I didn't actually have time for that right now

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 11:50:56 JST prettygood

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     @tehfishman yeah its part of why everyone either uses borgmatic, or has bash wrappers with exports all over the place, like I do. I just want to manually inspect a backup for a specific file without doing a whole ass restore.

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     tehfishman (tehfishman@ioc.exchange)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 11:50:57 JST tehfishman

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     @prettygood I literally just started using it a few days ago and there's definitely a "we thought about including batteries but decided not to" vibe in the documentation.

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     ✠ Степан ✠ (mansalia@shitpost.poridge.club)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 12:42:42 JST ✠ Степан ✠

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     @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer
     no idea about borg, i run a timer unit that creates new zfs snapshots and destroys old ones.
     zfsnap2 does 95% of the work.

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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 12:47:59 JST sapphire

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     @mansalia @prettygood pretty sure you don't need to clear old zfs snapshots, they're diffs not full backups
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 12:50:12 JST prettygood

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     @mansalia I use borg for off-site versioned backups
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     ~BitBun~ :bunRetro: (bitbun@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 22:13:23 JST ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:

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     @prettygood Worst part is if you change the config if has to treat everything like it's fresh again and rescan the whole drive. Which is stupid, but it's not wasteful since it still dedupes for the actual file storage. Just means config changes lead to a really long initial backup just after it, but it goes back to proper incremental backups after that.

     Just figured I should mention it since it's a pain point I sometimes deal with. Maybe I'm just using it wrong, IDK - luckily I don't have to change configs up too often, at least.

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     ~BitBun~ :bunRetro: (bitbun@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 22:13:25 JST ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:

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     @prettygood I've been pretty happy with restic for my off-site backups at least. It's not perfect, but it's good enough for my uses.

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 10:14:29 JST prettygood

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     @tehfishman stunning recollection laptops exist.
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     tehfishman (tehfishman@ioc.exchange)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 10:14:30 JST tehfishman

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     @prettygood
     *actual borgmatic documentation*

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