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BORG-RLIST(1) borg backup tool BORG-RLIST(1)

NAME

borg-rlist - List the archives contained in a repository

SYNOPSIS

borg [common options] rlist [options]

DESCRIPTION

This command lists the archives contained in a repository.

OPTIONS

See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands.

options

Show checkpoint archives in the repository contents list (default: hidden).
only print the archive names, nothing else
specify format for archive listing (default: "{archive:<36} {time} [{id}]{NL}")
Format output as JSON. The form of --format is ignored, but keys used in it are added to the JSON output. Some keys are always present. Note: JSON can only represent text. A "barchive" key is therefore not available.

Archive filters

only consider archive names matching the pattern. see "borg help match-archives".
Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, name, id; default is: timestamp
consider first N archives after other filters were applied
consider last N archives after other filters were applied

EXAMPLES

$ borg rlist
Monday                               Mon, 2016-02-15 19:15:11
repo                                 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:26:54
root-2016-02-15                      Mon, 2016-02-15 19:36:29
newname                              Mon, 2016-02-15 19:50:19
...


NOTES

The FORMAT specifier syntax

The --format option uses python's format string syntax.

Examples:

$ borg rlist --format '{archive}{NL}'
ArchiveFoo
ArchiveBar
...
# {VAR:NUMBER} - pad to NUMBER columns.
# Strings are left-aligned, numbers are right-aligned.
# Note: time columns except ``isomtime``, ``isoctime`` and ``isoatime`` cannot be padded.
$ borg rlist --format '{archive:36} {time} [{id}]{NL}' /path/to/repo
ArchiveFoo                           Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:28 [0b8e9a312bef3f2f6e2d0fc110c196827786c15eba0188738e81697a7fa3b274]
...


The following keys are always available:

  • NEWLINE: OS dependent line separator
  • NL: alias of NEWLINE
  • NUL: NUL character for creating print0 / xargs -0 like output, see barchive and bpath keys below
  • SPACE
  • TAB
  • CR
  • LF

Keys available only when listing archives in a repository:

  • archive: archive name interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see barchive)
  • name: alias of "archive"
  • barchive: verbatim archive name, can contain any character except NUL
  • comment: archive comment interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see bcomment)
  • bcomment: verbatim archive comment, can contain any character except NUL
  • id: internal ID of the archive
  • start: time (start) of creation of the archive
  • time: alias of "start"
  • end: time (end) of creation of the archive
  • command_line: command line which was used to create the archive
  • hostname: hostname of host on which this archive was created
  • username: username of user who created this archive

SEE ALSO

borg-common(1)

AUTHOR

The Borg Collective

2023-01-18