[Borgbackup] Backing up multiple servers to one repository

[Jordi Marqués]

El Lun, 11 Nov, 2024, a las 13:16, Edgar Fuß escribió:
> I want to backup several largely identical servers. As far as I understand, de-duplication happens only across archives within the same repository, not across repositories on the same server. So to take advantage of de-duplication (which would de-duplicate 99% of the data) I would need to backup all servers to one repository, which has severe issues.

What are the issues? AFAIK, the main issue is that two processes can not simultaneously access the repository. This forces you to run backup jobs sequentially, one at a time. You must store data in the same repository to avoid duplication.

IIRC, with the future release of borg 2.0, several clients will be able to access the repository simultaneously, but it has not yet been released.