[Borgbackup] leftover repos

Bzzzz lazyvirus at gmx.com
Sun May 21 13:51:40 EDT 2023


On Sun, 21 May 2023 19:24:54 +0200
Boris Kirkorowicz <bkborg at kirk.de> wrote:

Hi,

> I tried some experiments with dummy directories to find out the best
> compression method and level, and after that, the repos created
> should be removed. I quickly did this at file system level, simply by
>
> rm -rf /mnt/rs1219a/testrepo*
>
> Some of these directories weren't deleted because they aren't empty,
> but there were no files visible. So i tried borg delete, borg prune
> etc., but it did not work: repo not found or false parameter.
>
> After rebooting the target several times, I got rid of the
> directories, but
>
> ls -1 /mnt/borg

Let's recapitulate :
* you removed DIR A
* you find strange to find things into DIR B

Am I the only one to see a tiny bit of discrepancy here ?

> (the borgfs mount) shows all of the testing repos:
> testrepo_zstd01
> testrepo_zstd03
> testrepo_zstd06
> testrepo_zstd09
> testrepo_zstd11
> testrepo_zstd13
> testrepo_zstd16
> testrepo_zstd19
> testrepo_zstd22
>
> Now I wonder how to remove them. What do I have to do?

eg.. rm -r /mnt/borg ?

Jean-Yves


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