[Borgbackup] Resuming backup - does it require the same archive name?

[David Gasaway]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 2:22 PM Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:

> After some testing with my /etc backups, I modified the script to backup
> my ~ and left it overnight to run.
>
> I'm using a fairly standard archive name:- home-{hostname}-{now}
>
> Obviously the archive name depends on the date and time. If I cancel my
> overnight backup run later this morning, I understand there will be
> checkpoints for resuming. Does that require me to specify the archive name
> which I originally used? Or can I just do borg create (with the above name)
> again?
>

>From the FAQ...
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#if-a-backup-stops-mid-way-does-the-already-backed-up-data-stay-there
"You may use the same archive name as in previous attempt or a different
one (e.g. if you always include the current datetime), it does not matter."

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-:-:- David K. Gasaway
-:-:- Email: dave at gasaway.org
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