borg-key(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to borg-key — it's the part of the borg backup tool that lets you Manage the keyfile or repokey of a repository 💅 like, it's literally the whole vibe of keeping your repo's keys in check, and she serves 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

borg [common options] key export ...
borg [common options] key import ...
borg [common options] key change-passphrase ...
borg [common options] key add ...
borg [common options] key remove ...
borg [common options] key list ...
borg [common options] key change-location ...

so yeah, it's always borg [common options] key then whichever lil sub-command you're feeling that day 🎀 every single one of those seven is its own whole thing, no cap.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read these when you're done here, they're basically the group chat 💬

• borg-common(1)
• borg-key-export(1)
• borg-key-import(1)
• borg-key-change-passphrase(1)
• borg-key-add(1)
• borg-key-remove(1)
• borg-key-list(1)
• borg-key-change-location(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The Borg Collective

they're the iconique collective behind this whole thing, we stan 🫶

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fr fr, that's the whole page — short, sweet, and absolutely main character energy 🧚

and for the little sign-off, since we're being cute about it: this is the borg-key(1) manual page, part of the borg backup tool, dated 2026-10-07 🌈 thanks for reading bestie, now go manage those keys 💜