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It's actually pretty simple using the check command [0]! borg check --verify-data REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE You can add that to a cron job. Alternatively, I th
by jszymborski 3y ago
It's actually pretty simple using the check command [0]!
borg check --verify-data REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE
You can add that to a cron job.
Alternatively, I think the Vorta GUI also has a way to easily schedule it[1].
I'll add that one thing I like to do once in a blue-moon is to spin-up a VM and try to recover a few random files. While the check command checks that the data is there and theoretically recoverable, nothing really beats proving to yourself that you can, in a clean environment, recover your files.
[0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html
[1] https://vorta.borgbase.com/ https://vorta.borgbase.com/
- johnchristopher 3y ago> It's actually pretty simple using the check command [0]! > borg check --verify-data REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE Thanks ! I thought there were some more convoluted process but I couldn't picture out anything except extracting the whole archives and check up by hand.