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title: How to inspect your backups
Backup progress
By default, borgmatic runs proceed silently except in the case of errors. But if you'd like to to get additional information about the progress of the backup as it proceeds, use the verbosity option:
borgmatic --verbosity 1
This lists the files that borgmatic is archiving, which are those that are new or changed since the last backup.
Or, for even more progress and debug spew:
borgmatic --verbosity 2
Backup summary
If you're less concerned with progress during a backup, and you only want to see the summary of archive statistics at the end, you can use the stats option when performing a backup:
borgmatic --stats
Existing backups
borgmatic provides convenient actions for Borg's list and info functionality:
borgmatic list
borgmatic info
(No borgmatic list or info actions? Try the old-style --list or
--info. Or upgrade borgmatic!)
Logging
By default, borgmatic logs to a local syslog-compatible daemon if one is
present and borgmatic is running in a non-interactive console. Where those
logs show up depends on your particular system. If you're using systemd, try
running journalctl -xe. Otherwise, try viewing /var/log/syslog or
similiar.
You can customize the log level used for syslog logging with the
--syslog-verbosity flag, and this is independent from the console logging
--verbosity flag described above. For instance, to get additional
information about the progress of the backup as it proceeds:
borgmatic --syslog-verbosity 1
Or to increase syslog logging to include debug spew:
borgmatic --syslog-verbosity 2
systemd journal
If your local syslog daemon is systemd's journal, be aware that journald by
default throttles the rate at which a particular program can log. So you may
need to change the journald rate
limit
in /etc/systemd/journald.conf if you're finding that borgmatic journald logs
are missing.
Note that the sample borgmatic systemd service file already has this rate limit disabled.