borg-info(1)

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version 2.0.0b25 · 5 versions
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✨ borg-info — the glow-up report for ur archives ✨

okay bestie, welcome to borg-info(1) from the borg backup tool 💖 this is the page that tells u everything about one specific archive — like, the full tea ☕

🌸 NAME 🌸

borg-info — show archive details such as disk space used 🫶

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

borg [common options] info [options] [NAME]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

this command displays detailed information about the specified archive. it's giving "main character archive spotlight", no cap 👑

the original size shown here is the total size of the archive's source data — that's uncompressed, and it counts duplicate content per occurrence. so if the same file shows up five times, it gets counted five times, periodt 📏

now listen: deduplicated sizes are not shown here, and that's on purpose — computing them per archive is expensive 😭 (it's a whole thing). instead:

  • borg create --stats (also works with --json) reports the deduplicated size of the archive it has just created ✨
  • for the deduplicated size of a set of archives, use borg analyze 🔍
  • for the repository-wide deduplicated size, use borg compact --stats 🗜️

⚙️ OPTIONS ⚙️

see borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands 🫶

🎀 arguments 🎀

  • NAME — specify the archive name 💖 (that's the one u wanna snoop on)

🦋 options 🦋

  • --json — format output as JSON 🌈 (for when u want the robot-readable version)

🔥 Archive filters 🔥

  • -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 the first N archives after other filters are applied 🥇
  • --last N — consider the last N archives after other filters are 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. 🐣

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

watch this ate and left no crumbs:

$ borg info aid:059743db
Archive name: source-backup
Archive fingerprint: 059743db538840c04ee323673ac579d0b5433f2741c41f9643975df6370474f0
Comment:
Hostname: host
Username: user
Tags:
Time (nominal): Fri, 2026-08-28 12:25:52 +0200
Time (start): Fri, 2026-08-28 12:25:52 +0200
Time (end): Fri, 2026-08-28 12:25:52 +0200
Duration: 0.006 seconds
Command line: /usr/bin/borg -r /path/to/repo create source-backup src
Working Directory: /home/user
Number of files: 3
Original size: 3.00 MB

look at that fingerprint. iconic. 💀✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

borg-common(1), borg-list(1), borg-diff(1), borg-repo-info(1)

👑 Author 👑

The Borg Collective 🫶 (they run this whole thing, and yes they're lowkey iconic for it)

ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and borg info ur archives 💖

mwah 💋 this was borg backup tool, page dated 2026-10-07, that's a wrap — slay 🌈

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