PSA: If you regularly update borgmatic (e.g., because the Docker image is set to auto-update), you should also occasionally update the configuration file to keep it up to date. From time to time, the config file learns new options or old ones are deprecated.
Borgmatic provides the command borgmatic config generate for this purpose.
Borgbackup is a deduplicating backup program with encryption and compresssion. It uses a sophisticated storage format to fullfill those features.
Each backup run is stored in a so called archive. Sometimes you may want to keep a specific archive in long term storage – indepenend of any specific software specific format – let say as regular tar file.
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