borg [common options] delete [options] [REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE] [ARCHIVE...]
positional arguments |
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repository or archive to delete |
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archives to delete |
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optional arguments |
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do not change repository |
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output verbose list of archives |
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print statistics for the deleted archive |
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delete only the local cache for the given repository |
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force deletion of corrupted archives, use |
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keep the local security info when deleting a repository |
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work slower, but using less space |
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write checkpoint every SECONDS seconds (Default: 1800) |
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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 (without actually using the sh: prefix), see “borg help patterns”. |
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Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, archive, 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 |
This command deletes an archive from the repository or the complete repository.
Important: When deleting archives, repository disk space is not freed until
you run borg compact
.
When you delete a complete repository, the security info and local cache for it
(if any) are also deleted. Alternatively, you can delete just the local cache
with the --cache-only
option, or keep the security info with the
--keep-security-info
option.
When in doubt, use --dry-run --list
to see what would be deleted.
When using --stats
, you will get some statistics about how much data was
deleted - the “Deleted data” deduplicated size there is most interesting as
that is how much your repository will shrink.
Please note that the “All archives” stats refer to the state after deletion.
You can delete multiple archives by specifying a shell pattern to match
multiple archives using the --glob-archives GLOB
option (for more info on
these patterns, see borg help patterns).
To avoid accidentally deleting archives, especially when using glob patterns,
it might be helpful to use the --dry-run
to test out the command without
actually making any changes to the repository.
# delete a single backup archive:
$ borg delete /path/to/repo::Monday
# actually free disk space:
$ borg compact /path/to/repo
# delete all archives whose names begin with the machine's hostname followed by "-"
$ borg delete --glob-archives '{hostname}-*' /path/to/repo
# delete all archives whose names contain "-2012-"
$ borg delete --glob-archives '*-2012-*' /path/to/repo
# see what would be deleted if delete was run without --dry-run
$ borg delete --list --dry-run -a '*-May-*' /path/to/repo
# delete the whole repository and the related local cache:
$ borg delete /path/to/repo
You requested to completely DELETE the repository *including* all archives it contains:
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
Type 'YES' if you understand this and want to continue: YES