Emborg — Front-End to Borg Backup

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:Author: Ken Kundert :Version: 1.42 :Released: 2025-06-14

Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is built as a front-end to Borg_, a powerful and fast deduplicating backup program. With Emborg, you specify all the details about your backups once in advance, and then use a very simple command line interface for your day-to-day activities.

Use of Emborg does not preclude the use of Borg directly on the same repository. The philosophy of Emborg is to provide commands that you would use often and in an interactive manner with the expectation that you would use Borg directly for the remaining commands.

Emborg is not intended for use with Borg version 2.0 or later. Instead, the successor to Emborg should be used: Assimilate_.

Getting Help

You can find the documentation here: Emborg_.

The help command provides information on how to use Emborg's various features. To get a listing of the topics available, use::

emborg help

Then, for information on a specific topic use::

emborg help <topic>

It is worth browsing all of the available topics at least once to get a sense of all that Emborg can do.

.. _borg: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io .. _assimilate: https://assimilate.readthedocs.io .. _emborg: https://emborg.readthedocs.io

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