This page will help you to get started using your datastore with Borg. Borg is a versitile tool that can be used on many different plattforms and can be integrated into different softwares (e.g. Synology).

After creating your datastore, click on the “Connect” button and select the right box “rsync / borg / sftp”.

Paste in your public SSH Key so you can authenticate with your user and click “Save”.

Test the connection:

# ssh -v customer<ID>@fsn1-1.pbs-host.de -i path/to/private-key borg

if you get a positive result, you can create your borg vault:

# init vault
$ borg init --encryption=repokey customer67cd775d1779d07d5fc5b7af@fsn1-1.pbs-host.de:./borg
# create backup
$ borg create customer67cd775d1779d07d5fc5b7af@fsn1-1.pbs-host.de:./borg::archive_name /path/to/files

you backup should be created, here are some useful borg commands:

# list backups 
$ borg list customer67cd775d1779d07d5fc5b7af@fsn1-1.pbs-host.de:./borg
# free some disk space
$ borg compact customer67cd775d1779d07d5fc5b7af@fsn1-1.pbs-host.de:./borg

this should get your started creating and managin your backups using borg.