BorgBackup is a backup software that creates encrypted and compressed backups. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install BorgBackup on FreeBSD Latest.
Before installing BorgBackup, you need to update the package manager to ensure that you have the latest version of the software.
sudo pkg update
To install BorgBackup on FreeBSD Latest, you can use the package manager.
sudo pkg install py38-borgbackup
Once the installation process is complete, you can verify that BorgBackup has been installed correctly by checking its version:
borg --version
After verifying that BorgBackup is installed, you can set up your first backup. First, create a directory to store your backups, then run the BorgBackup command with the necessary parameters.
Create a directory to store your backups:
sudo mkdir /backups
sudo chown <yourusername> /backups
Initialize BorgBackup:
borg init /backups/mybackupdir
Create a backup of the directory /etc:
sudo borg create /backups/mybackupdir::backup-$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S) /etc
The above command creates a backup of the /etc directory and saves it in /backups/mybackupdir. The backup file is given a name based on the current date and time.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and used BorgBackup on FreeBSD Latest.
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