Comment on What I just learned about restoring BorgBackups
Carunga@feddit.de 1 year agoBorg is running on a headless server. Everything is dockerized, so I did the same with Borg. Advantages are that the setup is easy to setup, backup the config and move it to a different server. At first I did not realize that the mount of the backup only exists in the container and that this is making things a little harder.
shadowbert@kbin.social 1 year ago
Could you mount a blank directory into docker, then use borg to mount the backups into that?
Carunga@feddit.de 1 year ago
This was the first idea. I cannot explain very well why this does not work. But I think the issue is that the borg mount magic lives inside the container so the filesystem cannot be seen from the host. You can mount an empty directory and copy the files you want to access from the host into it. Problem with that is that you are stuck with the tooling provided by the container.