permissions/visibility inside the same repository?

[vonHabsi]

Does borgbackup allow archives to be created at the same repositories URLs which are not visible to other connections or users?

I am trialling Borg and its supporting utilities, and I succeeded in creating a repository and archives using BorgWarehouse, which I can check using the command line.

In trying to connect to the repo with Vorta from a new location in order to test backup restoration, but using the same repository URL, I think I may have done something that means I cannot see the archives created with borgwarehouse, and vice versa, but I can still create new ones.

Not only that when I try to list the archives with borg list each location displays its owns set of archives, even though I use the same BORG_PASSPHRASE and repository URL, and even the same SSH key, which leads me to believe that borg allows different users to use the same repository URL, but uses some other feature to distinguish them.

Is this a possibility? I assume that different users might want to use the same names but are distinguished by the SSH keys which makes this a possibility, but in the case I'm sure the repo URL, SSH key and BORG_PASSPHRASE are all the same?

[ThomasWaldmann]

For borgwarehouse questions, you need to contact them.

About borg:

If you have access to a specific repository (== identical repo URL), you have access to everything inside it and you can do all operations (list, create, extract, delete, etc.).

[vonHabsi]

Although the URL, ssh key and borg_passphrase are the same, the archive lists are different.

I have checked that this was the indeed the case by specifying the ssh key and the passphrase directly on the command line.

The fix was to get back into Vorta and delete the newer repositories it created.

I will try to make the time to replicate this situation at some time in the future.

[ThomasWaldmann]

So, we are talking about borg here. Not about vorta and not about borgwarehouse.

I don't think it is possible that 2 borg clients show a different archive list for the same repo.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Closing this as outdated: it has seen no activity for a long time and predates the current borg releases.

If this still affects you on a current version - borg 1.4.x (stable) or the borg 2.0.0 beta - please open a new discussion with up-to-date details.