Amanuel Elhanan elhananjair
  • Joined on 2021-12-13
elhananjair opened issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1306 2026-05-07 08:11:52 +00:00
How to keep two backups for end of month and first day of a month [Support]
elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#669 2025-10-09 08:28:29 +00:00
Recommended borgmatic.service settings for non-root use?

Thank you guys, I have spent days figuring out why I am getting an error using the default root systemd service. In my case, I am running Borgmatic as a non-root user. Although I installed…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1157 2025-10-04 09:52:39 +00:00
Commands working on terminal are not working in borgmatic hooks

Ok After checking on AI, it seems working, now I am dealing with ssh but that's another problem, as I said the problem with the user who executing the podman exec command, since borgmatic is…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1157 2025-10-04 09:02:04 +00:00
Commands working on terminal are not working in borgmatic hooks

As you suggested, I am running sudo borgmatic create --list --stat --verbosity -2 from the terminal before starting the systemd service, and there is no output when I run the above command.…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1157 2025-10-03 20:17:04 +00:00
Commands working on terminal are not working in borgmatic hooks

Hello @witten thanks again,

Is there anything above that error message in the borgmatic output that might be relevant here?

Nothing else, journalctl -xeu borgmatic.service is not…

elhananjair opened issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1157 2025-10-03 18:39:46 +00:00
Commands working on terminal are not working in borgmatic hooks
elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1148 2025-09-25 18:30:20 +00:00
Borgmatic commands are not working except for borgmatic config validate

Hello @witten Thanks for taking the time and try finding out the issue. Your suggestion was actually very important and accurate, as you said, I couldn't log in to the backup server with the…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1148 2025-09-20 08:50:17 +00:00
Borgmatic commands are not working except for borgmatic config validate

Just installed borgmatic with dnf and created a repo on backup machine using borg borg init --encryption=repokey /path/to/repo and then I executed this as you suggested `borg info --json…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1148 2025-09-20 08:09:36 +00:00
Borgmatic commands are not working except for borgmatic config validate

Well, I tried both, borg info --json ssh://repo_admin@remote.drp/home/repo_admin/DRP shows an error related to repo not found, since I started as a new user, I have not created a repo yet, since…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1148 2025-09-20 04:29:22 +00:00
Borgmatic commands are not working except for borgmatic config validate

If that error is from borgmatic running on the repo machine, then does that mean you're expecting the repo machine to connect to itself via SSH? Would it make more sense to change the…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1148 2025-09-19 20:06:10 +00:00
Borgmatic commands are not working except for borgmatic config validate

Hello there I tried removing Borgmatic and Borg from both, and installed Borgmatic with pipx as root. But before that, I have tried running with root as you suggested, and indeed, the error is…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1148 2025-09-19 12:57:49 +00:00
Borgmatic commands are not working except for borgmatic config validate

Here is the contents of config.yaml

# Constants to use in the configuration file. Within option values,
# all occurrences of the constant name in curly braces will be
# replaced with…
elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1148 2025-09-19 06:37:25 +00:00
Borgmatic commands are not working except for borgmatic config validate

Yes, I have created/generated it in /etc/borgmatic/config.yaml, checking with borgmatic validate config it shows no error, but the error indicates that something is wrong in the config…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1148 2025-09-18 18:40:11 +00:00
Borgmatic commands are not working except for borgmatic config validate

Hey @witten it's been a while,

why it's stubbornly refusing to work on the computer with your repository Actually, I executed borgmatic list on the production computer, where I created…

elhananjair opened issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#1148 2025-09-18 13:44:14 +00:00
Borgmatic commands are not working except for borgmatic config validate
elhananjair closed issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#494 2022-02-02 12:40:32 +00:00
Extracting archives to remote pc
elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#494 2022-02-02 12:40:21 +00:00
Extracting archives to remote pc

Would it be possible for you to run borgmatic extract and borgmatic restore on S1 with the "localhost" database configuration and a remote Borg repository (P2)? Then it would install your…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#494 2022-02-01 06:25:29 +00:00
Extracting archives to remote pc

Two options:

  • Configure borgmatic to connect to a remote database host, e.g. in the hostname of the database hook.
  • Or, run borgmatic on the remote PC with the database and configure…
elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#494 2022-02-01 05:58:56 +00:00
Extracting archives to remote pc

borgmatic restore actually streams the database restore directly from Borg to psql or pg_restore. That way it never needs to take up space in a temporary file.

ow ok I was almost…

elhananjair commented on issue borgmatic-collective/borgmatic#494 2022-02-01 05:46:35 +00:00
Extracting archives to remote pc

Unfortunately, it's not currently possible to use a remote --destination with borgmatic extract. Only local paths will work there.

One work-around could be if you first mounted a…