borgmatic/docs/how-to/make-per-application-backups.md

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title: How to make per-application backups

Multiple backup configurations

You may find yourself wanting to create different backup policies for different applications on your system. For instance, you may want one backup configuration for your database data directory, and a different configuration for your user home directories.

The way to accomplish that is pretty simple: Create multiple separate configuration files and place each one in a /etc/borgmatic.d/ directory. For instance:

sudo mkdir /etc/borgmatic.d
sudo generate-borgmatic-config --destination /etc/borgmatic.d/app1.yaml
sudo generate-borgmatic-config --destination /etc/borgmatic.d/app2.yaml

When you set up multiple configuration files like this, borgmatic will run each one in turn from a single borgmatic invocation. This includes, by default, the traditional /etc/borgmatic/config.yaml as well.

And if you need even more customizability, you can specify alternate configuration paths on the command-line with borgmatic's --config option. See borgmatic --help for more information.

Related documentation

• Set up backups with borgmatic