borg-repo-list - List the archives contained in a repository
borg [common options] repo-list [options]
This command lists the archives contained in a repository.
See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands.
- --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.
- -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.
- --deleted
- consider only soft-deleted archives.
$ 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
...
The --format option uses python's format string syntax
<https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/string.html#formatstrings> .
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