just had a pretty pleasent experience right now and wanted to write it down:
I’ve been using borg as a backup solution for my laptop for years now and never really had to recover anything. But now that my laptop is retired (went for the ipad pro) and another arch linux desktop is starting to take over the work I did with it, I found myself in need of a file I had on that laptop.
The workflow was as simple as:
- mount the nas volume that has the backup with a simple mount command.
borg mount /mnt/location-of-borg-archive /mnt/mountpoint- simply browse the filesystem as if you were right in that machine and copy out the file you need.
borg umount /mnt/mountpoint- profit!
That was so easy and working well, that I thought I have to make the backups of the ‘new’ machine with borg well. But this will be the story for another day… tbc