Multiple instances for Borg?

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My YunoHost server

Hardware: Orange PI Armbian
YunoHost version: 11.2.10.3

Description of my issue

I recall that it was possible to setup multiple instances of Borg. I already have one instance backing up to an external drive and want to setup another to backup to a little server in my shed to save me some time walking drives back and forth and rsyncing every week.

When I tried installing a new instance, it wrote over the configuration of my existing instance and did not create a new instance.

Should it or will it be possible to create multiple instances?

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You want to backup stuff on your YuNoHost server to multiple borg repos, or backup other stuff to borg repo(s) on your YuNoHost server?

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I would like to backup my main Yunohost server to two different repos: One is an attached drive and the other is a remote server in my shed. This accomplishes a 3/2/1 backup strategy. If I was able to create two different instances of Borg backup on my server, I would be able to do this.

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It should work: is used it with 2 borg (bog and borg__2). What means “it wrote over the configuration of my existing instance” ?

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I know it’s possible to do with Borgmatic:

https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/make-backups-redundant/

I haven’t tried Borg on YuNoHost yet, so I can’t say how the interface looks for that, but Borg(matic) certainly supports it.

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I tried again, and this time it worked as expected to create a new instance. :grinning:

I don’t know what happened last time and generally avoid repeating the same thing hoping for a different result.

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May be a bug due to the data fill during the install, it’s possible the backup passphrase should not contains some chars…

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Thanks for your willingness to help. I don’t know what happened. Sorry for the false alarm.

I now have offsite backup using my old RPI powered up in the shed across the yard within WIFI range. Borg is doing a weekly backup there.

I have an external drive connected to my main server in house. It is managed by both Nextcloud and Jellyfin. Because Borg doesn’t include it, I chose to sync it with my shed server using Syncthing.

Now I no longer need to walk discs back and forth every week. :grinning:

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