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Borgmatic

Daily backup system using Borg backup, running on indri.

Quick Reference

Property Value
Install mise (pipx)
Config ~/.config/borgmatic/config.yaml
Schedule Daily at 2:00 AM
Repository /Volumes/backups/borg/ on [[sifaka-nas

What Gets Backed Up

Directories:

  • ~/code/personal/zk - Zettelkasten
  • /opt/homebrew/var/forgejo - Git forge data
  • ~/.config/borgmatic - Borgmatic config
  • ~/Documents - Personal documents
  • ~/Pictures - Photos

Databases:

Not backed up (by design):

  • ZIM archives (re-downloadable)
  • Prometheus metrics (ephemeral)
  • Loki logs (ephemeral)

Retention Policy

Period Count
Daily 7
Monthly 12
Yearly 1000

Monitoring

Metrics exposed via textfile collector to prometheus:

  • borgmatic_up - Repository accessibility
  • borgmatic_last_archive_timestamp - Last backup time
  • borgmatic_repo_deduplicated_size_bytes - Disk usage

Dashboard: "Borgmatic Backups" in grafana

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