Inspect your Backups

The output of a backup will be shown in your terminal if running manually. You could output this into a log file if you wish, like so:

norg -c myconfig.toml --stats >> mybackup.log

This is great for letting you know some basic information about your backup.

List Existing Backups

Norg provides command line parameters to allow you to list your backups for all or specific repositories.

# List all archives/snapshots on all repositories
norg -c myconfig.toml list 

# List all archives/snapshots on a specific repository
norg -c myconfig.toml list -r MyRepository

When specifying the -r or --repository parameter, you can specify either the label or path for the repository defined in the configuration file.

You can also specify further Borg or Restic command line options (like --last 3 to show the last 3 archives in a Borg repository). It is advised to always use the -r parameter in these cases as specifc flags for Borg do not work with Restic and vice-versa.

Mount a Backup

Both Borg and Restic provide the ability to mount an archive (Borg) or repository (Restic) so you can inspect and recover individual files this way. Norg provides the ability to do this via the below command:

# For Borg repositories, where we mount an Archive
norg -c myconfig.toml mount -r MyBorgRepository -a hostname-date-of-backup /path/to/mount/point

# For Restic repositories, where we mount the entire repository
norg -c myconfig.toml mount -r MyResticRepository /path/to/mount/point

It is sensible to always provide the -r parameter as you will not be able to mount multiple archive/repositories to the same location.

Unmount a Backup

Unmounting a backup is different for both Borg and Restic.
Borg has a umount command which can be run via norg as follows:

norg -c myconfig.toml umount /path/to/mount/point

Restic however, remains running after a mount command has been issues, and awaits Ctrl+C keyboard entry to unmount. In short, there is no umount command for Restic.