Update a backup of a Borg repo

A backup of a Borg repo can be made with the following command: ¹

cd /run/media/exodrifter/Backup/
borg extract --list <repo_url>::<archive_name>

However, borg extract will copy over all of the files, even if they already exist. To only copy over the changes, the repo can be mounted using borg mount and then the changes copied over using rsync. ¹

First, FUSE support needs to be installed. On Arch Linux, this is done with: ¹

pacman -S python-llfuse

Then the archive can be mounted and browsed with: ¹

mkdir /mnt/borg
borg mount <repo_url>::<archive_name> /mnt/borg
rsync --progress --archive --delete /mnt/borg/sky-2024-12-04T08:32:06.701926/mnt/data/sync/ /run/media/exodrifter/Backup/mnt/data/sync

Footnotes

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