borg-common(1)

✨ NAME ✨

borg-common — the common options of Borg commands, aka the shared group-chat settings every Borg command shows up with 💖 (this page lives in the borg backup tool manual, section 1)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay bestie, every Borg command rocks these flags. here's the whole lineup, no skips, no gatekeeping 🫶

• -h, --help — pops up this help message and then dips, that's it, that's the whole job ✨
• --critical — work on log level CRITICAL (only the most dramatic stuff makes it through 💀)
• --error — work on log level ERROR
• --warning — work on log level WARNING — and this one is the default, so it's giving main character energy whether you asked or not 👑
• --info, -v, --verbose — work on log level INFO (three whole ways to say the same thing, slay)
• --debug — enable debug output, work on log level DEBUG (maximum yapping mode, lowkey iconic 🔥)
• --debug-topic TOPIC — enable TOPIC debugging (and yes, you can specify it multiple times, go off 🌈). The logger path is borg.debug.<TOPIC> if TOPIC is not fully qualified.
• -p, --progress — show progress information, so you're not just staring at a silent terminal like 🙈
• --log-json — Output one JSON object per log line instead of formatted text.
• --lock-wait SECONDS — wait at most SECONDS for acquiring a repository/cache lock (default: 10).
• --show-version — show/log the borg version
• --show-rc — show/log the return code (rc), for when you need the receipts 🎀
• --umask M — set umask to M (local only, default: 0077)
• -r REPO, --repo REPO — repository to use, aka the whole point of the hangout 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• borg-common(1)

it's giving "this page references itself" and honestly? self-love, we respect it 💜

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💖 Author 💖

The Borg Collective

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and that's the whole page bestie, no notes, fr fr 💅✨ — this was borg-common(1) from the borg backup tool, dated 2026-10-07 🎀🦋🌸