borgfs(1)

Name
borgfs - Mount archive or an entire repository as a FUSE filesystem

SYNOPSIS

borgfs [options] REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE MOUNTPOINT [PATH...]

DESCRIPTION

This command mounts a repository or an archive as a FUSE filesystem. This can be useful for browsing or restoring individual files.

When restoring, take into account that the current FUSE implementation does not support special filesystem flags and ACLs.

When mounting a repository, the top directories will be named like the archives and the directory structure below these will be loaded on-demand from the repository when entering these directories, so expect some delay.

Care should be taken, as Borg backs up symlinks as-is. When an archive or repository is mounted, it is possible to “jump” outside the mount point by following a symlink. If this happens, files or directories (or versions of them) that are not part of the archive or repository may appear to be within the mount point.

Unless the --foreground option is given the command will run in the background until the filesystem is unmounted.

Performance tips:

•   when doing a "whole repository" mount: do not enter archive directories if not needed; this avoids on-demand loading.

•   only mount a specific archive, not the whole repository.

•   only mount specific paths in a specific archive, not the complete archive.

    The command borgfs provides a wrapper for borg mount. This can also be used in fstab entries: /path/to/repo /mnt/point fuse.borgfs defaults,noauto 0 0

    To allow a regular user to use fstab entries, add the user option: /path/to/repo /mnt/point fuse.borgfs defaults,noauto,user 0 0

    For FUSE configuration and mount options, see the mount.fuse(8) manual page.

    Borg's default behavior is to use the archived user and group names of each file and map them to the system's respective user and group ids. Alternatively, using numeric-ids will instead use the archived user and group ids without any mapping.

    The uid and gid mount options (implemented by Borg) can be used to override the user and group ids of all files (i.e., borg mount -o uid=1000,gid=1000).

    The man page references user_id and group_id mount options (implemented by FUSE) which specify the user and group id of the mount owner (aka, the user who does the mounting). It is set automatically by libfuse (or the filesystem if libfuse is not used). However, you should not specify these manually. Unlike the uid and gid mount options which affect all files, user_id and group_id affect the user and group id of the mounted (base) directory.

    Additional mount options supported by borg:

•   versions: when used with a repository mount, this gives a merged, versioned view of the files in the archives. EXPERIMENTAL; the layout may change in the future.

•   allow_damaged_files: by default damaged files (where missing chunks were replaced with runs of zeros by borg check --repair) are not readable and return EIO (I/O error). Set this option to read such files.

•   ignore_permissions: for security reasons the default_permissions mount option is internally enforced by borg. ignore_permissions can be given to not enforce default_permissions.

    The BORG_MOUNT_DATA_CACHE_ENTRIES environment variable is meant for advanced users to tweak the performance. It sets the number of cached data chunks; additional memory usage can be up to ~8 MiB times this number. The default is the number of CPU cores.

    When the daemonized process receives a signal or crashes, it does not unmount. Unmounting in these cases could cause an active rsync or similar process to unintentionally delete data.

    When running in the foreground, ^C/SIGINT cleanly unmounts the filesystem, but other signals or crashes do not.

    Debugging:

    borg mount usually daemonizes and the daemon process sends stdout/stderr to /dev/null. Thus, you need to either use -f / --foreground to make it stay in the foreground and not daemonize, or use BORG_LOGGING_CONF to reconfigure the logger to output to a file.

OPTIONS

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

  arguments

REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE
    repository or archive to mount

MOUNTPOINT
    where to mount filesystem

PATH
    paths to extract; patterns are supported

  options

-V, --version
    show version number and exit

--consider-checkpoints
    Show checkpoint archives in the repository contents list (default: hidden).

-f, --foreground
    stay in foreground, do not daemonize

-o  Extra mount options

--numeric-owner
    deprecated, use --numeric-ids instead

--numeric-ids
    use numeric user and group identifiers from archive(s)

  Archive filters

-P PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
    only consider archive names starting with this prefix. (deprecated)

-a GLOB, --glob-archives GLOB
    only consider archive names matching the glob. sh: rules apply (without actually using the sh: prefix), see "borg help patterns".

--sort-by KEYS
    Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, archive, name, id; default is: timestamp

--first N
    consider first N archives after other filters were applied

--last N
    consider last N archives after other filters were applied

  Include/Exclude options

-e PATTERN, --exclude PATTERN
    exclude paths matching PATTERN

--exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE
    read exclude patterns from EXCLUDEFILE, one per line

--pattern PATTERN
    include/exclude paths matching PATTERN

--patterns-from PATTERNFILE
    read include/exclude patterns from PATTERNFILE, one per line

--strip-components NUMBER
    Remove the specified number of leading path elements. Paths with fewer elements will be silently skipped.

SEE ALSO

borg-common(1)

Author
The Borg Collective