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Before a backup can be made a repository has to be initialized:

$ borg init –encryption=repokey /path/to/repo

Backup the ~/src and ~/Documents directories into an archive called Monday:

$ borg create /path/to/repo::Monday ~/src ~/Documents

The next day create a new archive called Tuesday:

$ borg create –stats /path/to/repo::Tuesday ~/src ~/Documents

This backup will be a lot quicker and a lot smaller since only new never before seen data is stored. The –stats option causes Borg to output statistics about the newly created archive such as the amount of unique data (not shared with other archives):

Archive name: Tuesday Archive fingerprint: bd31004d58f51ea06ff735d2e5ac49376901b21d58035f8fb05dbf866566e3c2 Time (start): Tue, 2016-02-16 18:15:11 Time (end): Tue, 2016-02-16 18:15:11

Duration: 0.19 seconds Number of files: 127

                     Original size      Compressed size    Deduplicated size

This archive: 4.16 MB 4.17 MB 26.78 kB All archives: 8.33 MB 8.34 MB 4.19 MB

                     Unique chunks         Total chunks

Chunk index: 132 261

List all archives in the repository:

$ borg list /path/to/repo Monday Mon, 2016-02-15 19:14:44 Tuesday Tue, 2016-02-16 19:15:11

List the contents of the Monday archive:

$ borg list /path/to/repo::Monday drwxr-xr-x user group 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 18:22:30 home/user/Documents -rw-r–r– user group 7961 Mon, 2016-02-15 18:22:30 home/user/Documents/Important.doc

Restore the Monday archive by extracting the files relative to the current directory:

$ borg extract /path/to/repo::Monday

Recover disk space by manually deleting the Monday archive:

$ borg delete /path/to/repo::Monday