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runwisp.com
Scheduling restic or borg backups so you hear when they fail: systemd timer with OnFailure=, cron with a Healthchecks ping, resticprofile, borgmatic. Plus what restic did in our tests: exit 3, a dead backup's lock that blocks prune, oneshot units with no timeout. #restic #borgbackup #selfhosted
Scheduling restic or borg backups with alerts when they fail: systemd timer, cron or borgmatic
Four ways to run restic or borg on a schedule and hear about it when a backup fails or never runs: a systemd timer with OnFailure=, cron with a Healthchecks ping, resticprofile and borgmatic. Tested with restic 0.18 and 0.19, including exit 3, stale locks and catch-up after downtime.
runwisp.com
November 5, 2026 at 8:55 PM
coding-lemur.de
und Dumps der Datenbanken jede Nacht ins Repo hochlädt.

Bis auf, dass die Borgmatic Konfig recht umfangreich ausfallen kann, bin ich damit recht zufrieden :)
November 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
coding-lemur.de
Wie Backupt ihr eure #Homeserver?

Ich habe eine Storagebox bei Hetzner und nutze darauf ein #Borg Repo.

Auf dem Homeserver übernimmt #Borgmatic die Sicherung: ich habe für meine Services jeweils eine Konfig erstellt, die die Docker Container sauber beendet während der Sicherung + Volume Daten
November 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
hmnews.bsky.social
Borgmatic backups now use `programs.borgmatic.backups..settings` for native YAML settings. Legacy `location`, `storage`, `retention`, and `consistency` options (except `location.excludeHomeManagerSymlinks`) and the six `extraConfig` options remain as deprecated [1/2]
#NixOS #Nix #HomeManager
October 11, 2026 at 1:08 PM
githubprojects.bsky.social
Back up files and databases from one config file, with encryption.

- Encrypt files before they leave
- Dump databases automatically
- Alert if backups stop

Explore it here:
osp.fyi/borgmatic
October 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
cstromblad.com
I slipped... I wanted to delete a directory did a wildcard <term-*>

And was a bit too quick... deleted about 1 week worth of work.

Panic.

But then I remembered that... didn't I actually setup this borgmatic backup a while back, like a few months ago.

Yes, I had... and for the first time ever […]
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swecyb.com
September 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
rantanlan.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy
Okay, vergessen die Backups zu prüfen und natürlich hats borgmatic beim Upgrade, warum auch immer, zerrissen.

Wie notifiziziere ich mich denn, wenn gar nichts mehr läuft? Ich kann mich notifizieren, wenn es erfolgreich ist, wenn es schiefläuft … aber wie prüf’ ich’s, wenn’s gar nicht mehr […]
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social.tchncs.de
September 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Back up Your Linux Server with Borgmatic
As a Linux admin or developer, you fully understand the importance of backups. In fact, you should consider them an The post Back up Your Linux Server with Borgmatic appeared first on The New Stack.
dlvr.it
March 23, 2024 at 3:27 PM
dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
I installed my new drives onto my proxmox node, routing cables nicely on my server rack. Tonight my borgmatic backup will run, and backup my home directory to the backup drive... after it runs, i will restore from the backup to my new drives... I tried to do that backup this afternoon but it […]
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mastodon.sdf.org
April 1, 2026 at 4:55 AM
dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
Ok, thanks to @borgmatic I have a backup that is running and sending data to a repurposed backup drive that used to be formatted to my old backup scheme and is now fully assimilated to the borg.

I'm gonna run it for a few weeks, then convert my other hard drive that I swap between... and once […]
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mastodon.sdf.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:58 PM
dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
#borgmatic friends. I have several backup drives that I rotate through. If I list each of their mount points in the borgmatic config, and the drive isn't mounted so the path doesn't exist, will borgmatic error out, or continue with the additionally listed destinations?

ideally It'd just update […]
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mastodon.sdf.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:43 AM
dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
so I backed up my laptop with borgmatic to my NAS. In the past I had a desktop with home Dir on the NAS so I could just backup the NAS and get everything. but when the fire hit I moved most of my work to my laptop. ive been ad-hoc backing up laptop dirs manually but I really needed a better […]
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mastodon.sdf.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:44 AM
dubroy.com
TIL: logrotate
→ github.com/pdubroy/til...
I recently set up a Debian on an old Mac Mini, and it's been about 20 years since I actively ran a Linux server, so I'm relearning some things. :-D This week, it's logrotate: logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large. In my last TIL, I wrote about my daily backups with borgmatic. That runs as a user (non-root) cron job, and logs to ~/logs/borgmatic/daily.log. I wanted those logs to be handled just like logs for system services; turns out that's pretty easy with logrotate.
April 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
dubroy.com
TIL: Backups with Borg and borgmatic
→ github.com/pdubroy/til...
I recently set up an old Mac Mini with Debian, mainly to use as a file server for my family. I decided to set up off-site backups to a Hetzner Storage Box. If you do a bit of research, you'll find a lot of recommendations for Borg and Restic. Ultimately they're pretty similar — they're both open source, deduplicating backup tools that support compression and encryption at rest. I decided to go with Borg. borgmatic On its own, Borg is pretty flexible, but relatively complex to configure. borgmatic is a Python-based wrapper script around Borg that's supposed to be easier to use.
April 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
aamirazad.com
Finally got my #fedora linux computer all backed up. I've postponed it long enough. The tools used is #borg managed by #borgmatic backing up my system every day. Then #healthchecks.io makes sure the backups are working
December 19, 2024 at 2:07 AM
latitude77.bsky.social
How I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic - Justus Perlwitz #borgbackup #borgmatic #macos
August 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
sigxcpu.org
Just so I don't forget: if you want to backup #postgresql with #borgmatic the config to wrap commands for the `postgres` user on #debian based distros are:
```
postgresql_databases:
- format: custom
name: all
pg_dump_command: runuser -u postgres - - pg_dump
pg_restore_command: runuser -u […]
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ruhr.social
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
tom-doerr.bsky.social
https://github.com/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
cybertailor.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy
BorgBackup supports exporting to TAR archives, so I'll try to set up borgmatic.

And then start burning DVDs with precious configs and data :neocat_mug__w:
November 28, 2024 at 6:52 AM
falls.foryou.fast
i gotta set up borgmatic on the pyramid activation pds before i forget to pay the weird host i use and the server disappears randomly one month
January 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
ignacioballesteros.es
For me, it's even easier to use with borgmatic.

I have heard about lower memory usage, but I don't have strong opinions on that. I just gave it a try and it worked.
January 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
kuraichan.bsky.social
Does anyone know why my filesystem gets read only when I try to mount a #backup from #borgmatic?

(borgmatic mount --archive [...] )

It shows an error that the destination has to be writeable and tries again. After that the filesystem is in RO mode...

#borg #sysadmin #admin #linux
March 31, 2026 at 11:15 AM
flozz.fr
Oui Pika est très très bien, je l'utilise sur mon PC portable ! 😁

Et pour les serveurs il y a l'excellent BorgMatic :

torsion.org/borgmatic/
borgmatic
torsion.org
March 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM