Borg activity
Let’s say you’ve chosen borg-backup to keep backups of all of your systems. Since you want to keep your data safe from prying eyes, you’ve set passwords on all your backups.
You want to ensure your systems are actually backing up on schedule. With borg, you run the borg info command. But that needs a password, and you probably haven’t memorized the command syntax! Is there a faster way to check?
The faster way to check
After Borg completes a backup, it updates the index file in the Borg repository. That means you can check the modification time on the index files. For example: ls -l borg/*/index*
Here’s a fancier example, with shell trickery and memorable server names:
# ls -lrt borg/*/index* | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f6- Mar 14 10:53 borg/ravioli/index.3393 Mar 14 11:06 borg/neon/index.1356 Apr 22 22:47 borg/mentor/index.910 Apr 24 08:32 borg/castle/index.4640 Apr 24 10:01 borg/liquid/index.12801 Apr 24 10:02 borg/jumbo/index.6759 Apr 24 10:03 borg/apropos/index.12629 Apr 24 10:45 borg/legend/index.12115
Looks like I had better check on the ravioli and neon backups!