From 90925c9428e9dee12c6c531883eac9eb02dc12f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Helfman Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 16:42:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Provide tips about old-style flags for those on older versions. --- docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md | 3 +++ docs/how-to/inspect-your-backups.md | 3 +++ docs/how-to/restore-a-backup.md | 6 ++++++ docs/how-to/set-up-backups.md | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md b/docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md index 10f86323..35d78013 100644 --- a/docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md +++ b/docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ borgmatic create borgmatic check ``` +(No borgmatic `prune`, `create`, or `check` actions? Try the old-style +`--prune`, `--create`, or `--check`. Or upgrade borgmatic!) + You can run with only one of these flags provided, or you can mix and match any number of them in a single borgmatic run. This supports approaches like making backups with `create` on a frequent schedule, while only running diff --git a/docs/how-to/inspect-your-backups.md b/docs/how-to/inspect-your-backups.md index f2aea68e..fe32ce7c 100644 --- a/docs/how-to/inspect-your-backups.md +++ b/docs/how-to/inspect-your-backups.md @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ borgmatic list borgmatic info ``` +(No borgmatic `list` or `info` actions? Try the old-style `--list` or +`--info`. Or upgrade borgmatic!) + ## Logging By default, borgmatic logs to a local syslog-compatible daemon if one is diff --git a/docs/how-to/restore-a-backup.md b/docs/how-to/restore-a-backup.md index ecacbea2..336a356e 100644 --- a/docs/how-to/restore-a-backup.md +++ b/docs/how-to/restore-a-backup.md @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ to figure out which archive to restore. A good way to do that is to use the borgmatic list ``` +(No borgmatic `list` action? Try the old-style `--list`, or upgrade +borgmatic!) + That should yield output looking something like: ```text @@ -25,6 +28,9 @@ and therefore the latest timestamp, run a command like: borgmatic extract --archive host-2019-01-02T04:06:07.080910 ``` +(No borgmatic `extract` action? Try the old-style `--extract`, or upgrade +borgmatic!) + The `--archive` value is the name of the archive to restore. This extracts the entire contents of the archive to the current directory, so make sure you're in the right place before running the command. diff --git a/docs/how-to/set-up-backups.md b/docs/how-to/set-up-backups.md index abb62d97..e170b8d7 100644 --- a/docs/how-to/set-up-backups.md +++ b/docs/how-to/set-up-backups.md @@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ a command like the following: borgmatic init --encryption repokey ``` +(No borgmatic `init` action? Try the old-style `--init` flag, or upgrade +borgmatic!) + This uses the borgmatic configuration file you created above to determine which local or remote repository to create, and encrypts it with the encryption passphrase specified there if one is provided. Read about [Borg