Borg 1.2.4
borg list¶
borg [common options] list [options] [REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE] [PATH...]
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repository or archive to list contents of |
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paths to list; patterns are supported |
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options |
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Show checkpoint archives in the repository contents list (default: hidden). |
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only print file/directory names, nothing else |
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specify format for file or archive listing (default for files: “{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}”; for archives: “{archive:<36} {time} [{id}]{NL}”) |
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Only valid for listing repository contents. Format output as JSON. The form of |
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Only valid for listing archive contents. Format output as JSON Lines. The form of |
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Archive filters — Archive filters can be applied to repository targets. |
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only consider archive names starting with this prefix. (deprecated) |
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only consider archive names matching the glob. sh: rules apply, see “borg help patterns”. |
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Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, name, id; default is: timestamp |
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consider first N archives after other filters were applied |
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consider last N archives after other filters were applied |
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Exclusion options |
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exclude paths matching PATTERN |
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read exclude patterns from EXCLUDEFILE, one per line |
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include/exclude paths matching PATTERN |
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read include/exclude patterns from PATTERNFILE, one per line |
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Description¶
This command lists the contents of a repository or an archive.
For more help on include/exclude patterns, see the borg help patterns command output.
The FORMAT specifier syntax¶
The --format option uses python’s format string syntax.
Examples:
$ borg list --format '{archive}{NL}' /path/to/repo
ArchiveFoo
ArchiveBar
...
# {VAR:NUMBER} - pad to NUMBER columns.
# Strings are left-aligned, numbers are right-aligned.
# Note: time columns except ``isomtime``, ``isoctime`` and ``isoatime`` cannot be padded.
$ borg list --format '{archive:36} {time} [{id}]{NL}' /path/to/repo
ArchiveFoo Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:28 [0b8e9a312bef3f2f6e2d0fc110c196827786c15eba0188738e81697a7fa3b274]
$ borg list --format '{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}' /path/to/repo::ArchiveFoo
-rw-rw-r-- user user 1024 Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:17 file-foo
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# {VAR:<NUMBER} - pad to NUMBER columns left-aligned.
# {VAR:>NUMBER} - pad to NUMBER columns right-aligned.
$ borg list --format '{mode} {user:>6} {group:>6} {size:<8} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}' /path/to/repo::ArchiveFoo
-rw-rw-r-- user user 1024 Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:17 file-foo
...
The following keys are always available:
NEWLINE: OS dependent line separator
NL: alias of NEWLINE
NUL: NUL character for creating print0 / xargs -0 like output, see barchive and bpath keys below
SPACE
TAB
CR
LF
Keys available only when listing archives in a repository:
archive: archive name interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see barchive)
name: alias of “archive”
barchive: verbatim archive name, can contain any character except NUL
comment: archive comment interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see bcomment)
bcomment: verbatim archive comment, can contain any character except NUL
id: internal ID of the archive
start: time (start) of creation of the archive
time: alias of “start”
end: time (end) of creation of the archive
command_line: command line which was used to create the archive
hostname: hostname of host on which this archive was created
username: username of user who created this archive
Keys available only when listing files in an archive:
type
mode
uid
gid
user
group
path: path interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see bpath)
bpath: verbatim POSIX path, can contain any character except NUL
source: link target for links (identical to linktarget)
linktarget
flags
size
csize: compressed size
dsize: deduplicated size
dcsize: deduplicated compressed size
num_chunks: number of chunks in this file
unique_chunks: number of unique chunks in this file
mtime
ctime
atime
isomtime
isoctime
isoatime
blake2b
blake2s
md5
sha1
sha224
sha256
sha384
sha3_224
sha3_256
sha3_384
sha3_512
sha512
xxh64: XXH64 checksum of this file (note: this is NOT a cryptographic hash!)
archiveid
archivename
extra: prepends {source} with “ -> “ for soft links and “ link to “ for hard links
health: either “healthy” (file ok) or “broken” (if file has all-zero replacement chunks)
Examples¶
$ borg list /path/to/repo
Monday Mon, 2016-02-15 19:15:11
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
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$ borg list /path/to/repo::root-2016-02-15
drwxr-xr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 17:44:27 .
drwxrwxr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:04:49 bin
-rwxr-xr-x root root 1029624 Thu, 2014-11-13 00:08:51 bin/bash
lrwxrwxrwx root root 0 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:26 bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff
-rwxr-xr-x root root 2140 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:22 bin/bzdiff
...
$ borg list /path/to/repo::root-2016-02-15 --pattern "- bin/ba*"
drwxr-xr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 17:44:27 .
drwxrwxr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:04:49 bin
lrwxrwxrwx root root 0 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:26 bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff
-rwxr-xr-x root root 2140 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:22 bin/bzdiff
...
$ borg list /path/to/repo::archiveA --format="{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8d} {isomtime} {path}{extra}{NEWLINE}"
drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 .
drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code
drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject
-rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext
-rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.text
...
$ borg list /path/to/repo/::archiveA --pattern 're:\.ext$'
-rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext
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$ borg list /path/to/repo/::archiveA --pattern 're:.ext$'
-rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext
-rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.text
...