BORG-DELETE(1) | borg backup tool | BORG-DELETE(1) |
borg-delete - Delete an existing repository or archives
borg [common options] delete [options] [REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE] [ARCHIVE...]
This command deletes an archive from the repository or the complete repository.
Important: When deleting archives, repository disk space is not freed until you run borg compact.
When you delete a complete repository, the security info and local cache for it (if any) are also deleted. Alternatively, you can delete just the local cache with the --cache-only option, or keep the security info with the --keep-security-info option.
When in doubt, use --dry-run --list to see what would be deleted.
When using --stats, you will get some statistics about how much data was deleted - the "Deleted data" deduplicated size there is most interesting as that is how much your repository will shrink. Please note that the "All archives" stats refer to the state after deletion.
You can delete multiple archives by specifying a shell pattern to match multiple archives using the --glob-archives GLOB option (for more info on these patterns, see borg_patterns).
To avoid accidentally deleting archives, especially when using glob patterns, it might be helpful to use the --dry-run to test out the command without actually making any changes to the repository.
See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands.
# delete a single backup archive: $ borg delete /path/to/repo::Monday # actually free disk space: $ borg compact /path/to/repo # delete all archives whose names begin with the machine's hostname followed by "-" $ borg delete --glob-archives '{hostname}-*' /path/to/repo # delete all archives whose names contain "-2012-" $ borg delete --glob-archives '*-2012-*' /path/to/repo # see what would be deleted if delete was run without --dry-run $ borg delete --list --dry-run -a '*-May-*' /path/to/repo # delete the whole repository and the related local cache: $ borg delete /path/to/repo You requested to completely DELETE the repository *including* all archives it contains: repo Mon, 2016-02-15 19:26:54 root-2016-02-15 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:36:29 newname Mon, 2016-02-15 19:50:19 Type 'YES' if you understand this and want to continue: YES
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2023-03-22 |