BORG-PLACEHOLDERS(1)

NAME
borg-placeholders - Details regarding placeholders

DESCRIPTION

Repository (or Archive) URLs, --prefix and --remote-path values support these placeholders:

{hostname} The (short) hostname of the machine.

{fqdn} The full name of the machine.

{now} The current local date and time, by default in ISO-8601 format. You can also supply your own format string, e.g. {now:%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S}

{utcnow} The current UTC date and time, by default in ISO-8601 format. You can also supply your own format string, e.g. {utcnow:%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S}

{user} The user name (or UID, if no name is available) of the user running borg.

{pid} The current process ID.

{borgversion} The version of borg, e.g.: 1.0.8rc1

{borgmajor} The version of borg, only the major version, e.g.: 1

{borgminor} The version of borg, only major and minor version, e.g.: 1.0

{borgpatch} The version of borg, only major, minor and patch version, e.g.: 1.0.8

If literal curly braces need to be used, double them for escaping:

borg create /path/to/repo::{{literal_text}}

Examples:

borg create /path/to/repo::{hostname}-{user}-{utcnow} ...
borg create /path/to/repo::{hostname}-{now:%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S} ...
borg prune --prefix '{hostname}-' ...

AUTHOR
The Borg Collective