borg diff

borg [common options] diff [options] REPO::ARCHIVE1 ARCHIVE2 [PATH...]

positional arguments
	REPO::ARCHIVE1	repository location and ARCHIVE1 name
	ARCHIVE2	ARCHIVE2 name (no repository location allowed)
	PATH	paths of items inside the archives to compare; patterns are supported
optional arguments
	--numeric-owner	deprecated, use --numeric-ids instead
	--numeric-ids	only consider numeric user and group identifiers
	--same-chunker-params	Override check of chunker parameters.
	--sort	Sort the output lines by file path.
	--json-lines	Format output as JSON Lines.
Common options
Exclusion options
	-e PATTERN, --exclude PATTERN	exclude paths matching PATTERN
	--exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE	read exclude patterns from EXCLUDEFILE, one per line
	--pattern PATTERN	include/exclude paths matching PATTERN
	--patterns-from PATTERNFILE	read include/exclude patterns from PATTERNFILE, one per line

Description

This command finds differences (file contents, user/group/mode) between archives.

A repository location and an archive name must be specified for REPO::ARCHIVE1. ARCHIVE2 is just another archive name in same repository (no repository location allowed).

For archives created with Borg 1.1 or newer diff automatically detects whether the archives are created with the same chunker params. If so, only chunk IDs are compared, which is very fast.

For archives prior to Borg 1.1 chunk contents are compared by default. If you did not create the archives with different chunker params, pass --same-chunker-params. Note that the chunker params changed from Borg 0.xx to 1.0.

For more help on include/exclude patterns, see the borg help patterns command output.

Examples

$ borg init -e=none testrepo
$ mkdir testdir
$ cd testdir
$ echo asdf > file1
$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=4 > file2
$ touch file3
$ borg create ../testrepo::archive1 .

$ chmod a+x file1
$ echo "something" >> file2
$ borg create ../testrepo::archive2 .

$ echo "testing 123" >> file1
$ rm file3
$ touch file4
$ borg create ../testrepo::archive3 .

$ cd ..
$ borg diff testrepo::archive1 archive2
[-rw-r--r-- -> -rwxr-xr-x] file1
   +135 B    -252 B file2

$ borg diff testrepo::archive2 archive3
    +17 B      -5 B file1
added           0 B file4
removed         0 B file3

$ borg diff testrepo::archive1 archive3
    +17 B      -5 B [-rw-r--r-- -> -rwxr-xr-x] file1
   +135 B    -252 B file2
added           0 B file4
removed         0 B file3

$ borg diff --json-lines testrepo::archive1 archive3
{"path": "file1", "changes": [{"type": "modified", "added": 17, "removed": 5}, {"type": "mode", "old_mode": "-rw-r--r--", "new_mode": "-rwxr-xr-x"}]}
{"path": "file2", "changes": [{"type": "modified", "added": 135, "removed": 252}]}
{"path": "file4", "changes": [{"type": "added", "size": 0}]}
{"path": "file3", "changes": [{"type": "removed", "size": 0}]}