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Best Way to Move a BorgBackup Repository
Motion3549
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in Help
Hi,
I currently have a BorgBackup repository at rsync.net. I would like to move it to a new HostHatch storage VPS. What is the best way to do this? I asked ChatGPT and learned that I can use "rsync -a --numeric-ids" to pull from the HostHatch side. This way, on the client side, I only need to change the SSH key and host. Everything else should stay the same.
Thanks.
Thanked by 1nghialele
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There is no reason to keep the user IDs the same, in fact this may break. Otherwise, rsync is the way to go, directly from either side.
That is quite the downgrade...
Should I use
--rsync-path="sudo rsync"to keep the permissions unchanged at the destination?why is this? I personally am not a fan of the 800GB minimum spend so i have never touched the service. I have relatively small things that I care about to back up
If you want to use rsync.net with borg, you can get 200GB for $19.20/year.
https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
I've used rsync.net in the past, and it's fine.
I've only got 100GB, and it's geo-redundant. Nothing wrong with storage VPS products as such, but as a third-level backup I think that's as close to tape-in-a-vault as I'm going to get :-)