[Borgbackup] suggestion append data for existing archive
Judith Brown
bioc0765 at outlook.com
Mon Aug 28 08:13:55 EDT 2017
If am searching for a backup + optimal solution to raspberrypi media management.
Assume I have a (2TB) large /media/SOURCE and small /home/pi (~8GB from microSDcard).
I do a first backup:
borg init /media/2TB_BACKUP
borg create /media/2TB_BACKUP::archive-1 /media/SOURCE
Now, I mount
borg mount /media/2TB_BACKUP::archive-1 /media/DATA
I remove 2TB /media/SOURCE
Now I mount a small 8GB usb stick at /media/SOURCE
My suggestions:
1. If I run (with 8GB usb stick)
borg create /media/2TB_BACKUP::archive-2 /media/SOURCE
this archive will have only the NEW 8GB data.
2. Can I access *all* data from archive-1 + archive-2 at the sametime at the same mountpoint?
Instead of (1), it would be great if there was a 'append' parameter, so that I can 'append' data onto the archive-1 thereby while 'creating+adding new data borg does compression+dedup. This after initial setup I can make /media/2TB_BACKUP and make it my main 'disk' since it features deduplication and compression! (onto any filesystem - like ext4 or XFS).
I wouldn't mind umounting eachtime before running a 'append'. Do you think this qualifies as a feature for future? Thanks for the great work.
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