borg repo-list¶

borg [common options] repo-list [options]

optional arguments
	`--short`	only print the archive IDs, nothing else
	`--format FORMAT`	specify format for archive listing (default: “{archive:<36} {time} [{id}]{NL}”)
	`--json`	Format output as JSON. The form of `--format` is ignored, but keys used in it are added to the JSON output. Some keys are always present. Note: JSON can only represent text.
Common options
Archive filters — Archive filters can be applied to repository targets.
	`-a PATTERN`, `--match-archives PATTERN`	only consider archives matching all patterns. see “borg help match-archives”.
	`--sort-by KEYS`	Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, archive, name, id, tags, host, user; default is: timestamp
	`--first N`	consider first N archives after other filters were applied
	`--last N`	consider last N archives after other filters were applied
	`--oldest TIMESPAN`	consider archives between the oldest archive’s timestamp and (oldest + TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
	`--newest TIMESPAN`	consider archives between the newest archive’s timestamp and (newest - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
	`--older TIMESPAN`	consider archives older than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
	`--newer TIMESPAN`	consider archives newer than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.

Description¶

This command lists the archives contained in a repository.

The FORMAT specifier syntax¶

The --format option uses python’s format string syntax.

Examples:

$ borg repo-list --format '{archive}{NL}'
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 repo-list --format '{archive:36} {time} [{id}]{NL}' /path/to/repo
ArchiveFoo                           Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:28 [0b8e9...3b274]
...

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
SPACE: space character
TAB: tab character
CR: carriage return character
LF: line feed character

Keys available only when listing archives in a repository:

archive: archive name
name: alias of “archive”
comment: archive comment
id: internal ID of the archive
tags: archive tags
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
size: size of this archive (data plus metadata, not considering compression and deduplication)
nfiles: count of files in this archive

Examples¶

$ borg repo-list
151b1a57  Mon, 2024-09-23 22:57:11 +0200  docs             tw          MacBook-Pro  this is a comment
3387a079  Thu, 2024-09-26 09:07:07 +0200  scripts          tw          MacBook-Pro
ca774425  Thu, 2024-09-26 10:05:23 +0200  scripts          tw          MacBook-Pro
ba56c4a5  Thu, 2024-09-26 10:12:45 +0200  src              tw          MacBook-Pro
7567b79a  Thu, 2024-09-26 10:15:07 +0200  scripts          tw          MacBook-Pro
21ab3600  Thu, 2024-09-26 10:15:17 +0200  docs             tw          MacBook-Pro
...