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Borg-Space

Borg-Space is a utility that reports and tracks the space required by your Borg repositories. It also allows you to graph the space used over time.

The following is an example of a graph generated by borg-space that allowed me to catch a problem that resulted in excessive growth in in the space required to hold my repository: in the switch from Borg 1.1 to Borg 1.2, I had neglected to implement a compaction strategy. The problem was resolved on April 5th.

Logging with ntLog

ntLog is a log file aggregation utility.

When run Emborg writes over a previously generated logfile. This becomes problematic if you have one cron script that runs create frequently and another that runs a command like prune less frequently. If there is trouble with the prune command it will be difficult to see and resolve because its logfile will be overwritten by subsequent create commands.

ntlog can be run after each Emborg run to aggregate the individual logfile from each run into a single accumulating log file. To arrange this you can use run_after_borg:

run_after_borg = 'ntlog --keep-for 7d ~/.local/share/emborg/{config_name}.log'

This accumulates the log files as they are created to ~/.local/share/emborg/{config_name}.log.nt.