[Borgbackup] Can rsynced repos be used independently after the initial rsync?

[Marian Beermann]

This can work, if you change the repository ID in the repository's
config file in the two "forked" repos.

Realize that all encryption / authentication offered by Borg is
completely useless when used like this.

Cheers, Marian

Am 27.10.18 um 17:06 schrieb Oon-Ee Ng:
> The FAQ question on this says that syncing of the repo can be done using
> any tool (including rsync) as long as no backup is run to the repo while
> it's being synced.
> 
> However it also notes that as a long-term solution this leaves much to
> be desired, since anything corrupting the first repo would be synced
> over and result in a corrupted second repo. The recommendation given is
> to keep backups separate (run borg create twice, once to each).
> 
> Given I have a relatively large repo relative to my network connections
> throughput, and I want to have one borg repo on a local network backup
> machine and one on a remote backup machine, I was thinking about:-
> 
> 1. Running rsync (would likely take slightly under a day) of the repo
> from local backup machine to remote.
> 
> 2. Independently using both repos after rsync is successful. That means
> my backup script would call borg create repo1:/path followed by borg
> create repo2:/path
> 
> Would this work, and does it have any downsides?
> 
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