Add option to temporarily disable a backup about emborg HOT 5 CLOSED

Modifying the config files for individual runs is not really the intended use-model. Would it be easier to simply modify the script?

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That's possible, but currently the script essentially does:

for backup in /root/.config/emborg/*
do
    (emborg -c $backup create; emborg -c $backup prune) | Mail [email protected] -s "Borg backup for $backup"
done

Was looking for a way of disabling a particular backup for a while without having to move the settings file out of the directory.

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The approach I would take would be to use the presence of a file to indicate that the backup is to be skipped. Something like:

for backup in /root/.config/emborg/*
do
    if [ -e ~/.config/emborg/$backup.skip ]
    then
        Mail [email protected] -s "Borg backup for $backup SKIPPED" < /dev/null
    else
        (emborg -c $backup create; emborg -c $backup prune) | Mail [email protected] -s "Borg backup for $backup"
    fi
done

Then to disable the home backup, you would simply create ~/.config/emborg/home.skip. So,

touch ~/.config/emborg/home.skip

to start skipping the backups, and

rm ~/.config/emborg/home.skip

to start backing it up again.

from emborg.

Yeah, that certainly one approach. I'll look into implementing that. Just thought the option might be worth doing. Obviously nobody else has asked for it!

from emborg.

I appreciate the suggestion. Some of my hesitation comes from the fact that is seems like kind of a dangerous option. My concern is that people will disable a backup and forget to re-enable it. Of course Emborg would probably emit a message saying that the backup is disabled, but such messages can get lost.

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