https://paapereira.xyz/tags/borgbase/Recent content in BorgBase on paapereira.xyzHugoen-US<a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>©</a> 2008-2026 / <a href='https://gitlab.com/paapereira/paapereira.gitlab.io' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>source code</a>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:46:20 +0100https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2020/09/system-backups-borg/Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:46:20 +0100https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2020/09/system-backups-borg/<p>Since my last <a href="https://paapereira.xyz/posts/borg/">post</a> on <a href="https://www.borgbackup.org/">BorgBackup</a> and <a href="https://www.borgbase.com/">BorgBase</a>, I have subscribed to a 1 TB annual plan and have my daily and weekly /home backups running.</p> <p>The next thing to setup is my system backups. For this (for now) I’m using a more weekly manually approach.</p> <h2 id="installation">Installation</h2> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>sudo pacman -S borg </span></span></code></pre></div><h2 id="setup">Setup</h2> <ul> <li>Create a new key to use in your backups (<em>leave the password blank, I couldn&rsquo;t get it to work witch a password</em>)</li> </ul> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>sudo ssh-keygen -o -a <span style="color:#ae81ff">100</span> -t ed25519 </span></span></code></pre></div><ul> <li>Add your key to BorgBase (Account &gt; SSH Keys)</li> </ul> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>sudo cat /root/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub </span></span></code></pre></div><ul> <li> <p>Create a new ‘desktop-system’ Repository in BorgBase and associate your SSH Key</p>https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2020/08/borg/Sun, 23 Aug 2020 20:11:14 +0100https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2020/08/borg/<p>I’ve been using a mix of my own scripts with tar/gpg and <a href="https://paapereira.xyz/tags/duplicity">duplicity</a> to manage my backups (local and remote).</p> <p>For some time now duplicity has been my choice, but lately it seems that every time a backup is interrupted it doesn’t restart at the archive it was at, but it starts from the beginning.</p> <p>Since I have many GB to backup, every time duplicity performs a full backup this is a problem because I have to leave my desktop on for many hours. Also the fans start doing overtime and my little <a href="https://paapereira.xyz/tags/nuc">nuc</a> starts heating up.</p>