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[https://www.borgbackup.org/ BorgBackup] (short: Borg) is a deduplicating incremental backup program for local and remote data. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.
[https://www.borgbackup.org/ BorgBackup] (short: Borg) is a deduplicating incremental backup program for local and remote data. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.


This wiki article extends the documentation in the [https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#module-borgbase NixOS manual].
This wiki article extends the documentation in the [https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#module-borgbase NixOS manual].
 
It's easier to take the first steps with Borg by using a GUI - information about Vorta may also be found in the [https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#opt-services-backup-borgbackup-vorta NixOS manual].


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To be able to do remote backups it should be installed both locally and remotely, but usually no remote configuration required, only local one.
To be able to do remote backups it should be installed both locally and remotely, but usually no remote configuration required, only a local one.


== Creating backups ==
== Creating backups ==
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