borg-repo-info(1)

✨ borg-repo-info(1) ✨

okay bestie, this is a page from the borg backup tool manual — it's borg-repo-info, and it's literally the "tell me everything about my repo" command 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

borg-repo-info — Show repository information. that's it, that's the whole job, and it ate 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

borg [common options] repo-info [options]

no cap, that's the whole invocation. common options go in the front pocket, repo-info in the middle, and [options] for this command dangles at the end 🫶

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This command displays detailed information about the repository. like. detailed detailed. it's giving "spill the tea about my repo" and borg absolutely delivers ✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

the shared stuff

See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands. (that's where all the group-chat-wide settings live, iykyk)

options (the main character section)

• --json — format output as JSON. for when you want your repo intel in machine-readable form instead of the pretty human version 🦋

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

okay first things first, the plain call:

$ borg repo-info
Repository ID: 0a2744f216526be75ae14a5fa5b123127bb218558219f6203e09e4f220e45903
Location: /path/to/repo
Repository version: 5
Encrypted: Yes (repokey, aes256-ocb, sha256)
Security directory: /home/user/.local/share/borg/security/0a2744f216526be75ae14a5fa5b123127bb218558219f6203e09e4f220e45903
Cache: /home/user/.cache/borg/0a2744f216526be75ae14a5fa5b123127bb218558219f6203e09e4f220e45903

look at all that lore 🥹 repo ID, location, version, encryption situation, where the security directory lives, where the cache lives. main character energy from a single command.

and here's a lil detail you should know: if the key has an empty passphrase, this is shown in the Encrypted: line, e.g. Encrypted: Yes (repokey, aes256-ocb, sha256, empty passphrase). 👀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• borg-common(1)

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💖 Author 💖

The Borg Collective — iconic, mysterious, we love them for this 🙌

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no notes, bestie. run borg repo-info on your repo, read the tea, and go slay 💅✨

that was the borg backup tool's borg-repo-info(1), page dated 2026-10-07 — mwah, drink some water, log off eventually, and back up your stuff fr fr 🌸🎀💜