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@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-18 17:44:37

Found an issue with the Borg backup cron job, but got that fixed up and ran backups for today. Fortunately, this one didn't take 20 hours...lol. Backups are now verified but I'll feel better if the cron job works as expected tomorrow.
#homelab #borg

One year's worth of Borg backups.
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2026-02-18 22:03:59

I currently do backups by stopping the service, running #borgBackup, then restarting the service. This has several downsides:
- services are down for the runtime of borg, which can be considerable (minutes to hours) depending on the data volume and backup target.
- due to this slowness I haven't dared to back up to remotes over the network (which I absolutely should!), only to lo…