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BORG-REPO-LIST(1) borg backup tool BORG-REPO-LIST(1)

NAME

borg-repo-list - List the archives contained in a repository

SYNOPSIS

borg [common options] repo-list [options]

DESCRIPTION

This command lists the archives contained in a repository.

OPTIONS

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

options

only print the archive IDs, 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.

Archive filters

only consider archives matching all patterns. see "borg help match-archives".
Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, archive, name, id, tags, host, user; default is: timestamp
consider first N archives after other filters were applied
consider last N archives after other filters were applied
consider archives between the oldest archive's timestamp and (oldest + TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
consider archives between the newest archive's timestamp and (newest - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
consider archives older than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
consider archives newer than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
consider only soft-deleted archives.

EXAMPLES

$ borg repo-list
151b1a57  Mon, 2024-09-23 22:57:11 +0200  docs             tw          MacBook-Pro  this is a comment
3387a079  Thu, 2024-09-26 09:07:07 +0200  scripts          tw          MacBook-Pro
ca774425  Thu, 2024-09-26 10:05:23 +0200  scripts          tw          MacBook-Pro
ba56c4a5  Thu, 2024-09-26 10:12:45 +0200  src              tw          MacBook-Pro
7567b79a  Thu, 2024-09-26 10:15:07 +0200  scripts          tw          MacBook-Pro
21ab3600  Thu, 2024-09-26 10:15:17 +0200  docs             tw          MacBook-Pro
...


NOTES

The FORMAT specifier syntax

The --format option uses python's format string syntax <https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/string.html#formatstrings> .

Examples:

$ borg repo-list --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 repo-list --format '{archive:36} {time} [{id}]{NL}' /path/to/repo
ArchiveFoo                           Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:28 [0b8e9...3b274]
...


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
  • SPACE: space character
  • TAB: tab character
  • CR: carriage return character
  • LF: line feed character

Keys available only when listing archives in a repository:

  • archive: archive name
  • name: alias of "archive"
  • comment: archive comment
  • id: internal ID of the archive
  • tags: archive tags
  • 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
  • size: size of this archive (data plus metadata, not considering compression and deduplication)
  • nfiles: count of files in this archive

SEE ALSO

borg-common(1)

AUTHOR

The Borg Collective

2025-08-04