Mount the repo locally
You need to have a Host spica setup in ~/.ssh/config for this to work.
No need for root access, but the key must be added just like adding a key for a client machine
- First, we need the repo key and passphrase:
- The passphrase and the key should already stand in the client in
/root/borg-stuff/${REPO}.passphraseand$REPO.key. If the passphrase is not there, we have bigger problems: backups might not actually happen, as it needs the passphrase to run. To export the key:skwotfarm:~ # borg key export spica:skwotfarm-rootfs /root/borg-stuff/skwotfarm-rootfs-key
- The passphrase and the key should already stand in the client in
- Then we must download it localy (use scp or rsync).
- Then we must import it in our local borg config:
local-computer:~ $ SRV='skwotfarm'local-computer:~ $ REPO='skwotfarm-rootfs'local-computer:~ $ borg key import spica:/home/borgy/repos/${SRV}/${REPO} borgbackup-${REPO}.key
- We need to access the files with root privileges (as backed up files have
their own perms), so we must tell fuse to allow that:
- in
/etc/fuse.conf, uncommentuser_allow_other
- in
- Mount the backup:
$ mkdir /tmp/borg-mountpoint$ BORG_PASSCOMMAND="cat /path/to/${REPO}.passphrase" borg mount -o allow_root spica:/home/borgy/repos/${SRV}/${REPO} /tmp/borg-mountpoint- Mounting the whole repository is resource intensive, using '--last 1' makes it much lighter. There are other filtering options, see
man borg-mount
- Mounting the whole repository is resource intensive, using '--last 1' makes it much lighter. There are other filtering options, see
Browse mounted repo
To use a graphical tool to browse files, one can do:
$ xhost si:localuser:root$ sudo nautilus # or whatever software you wanna use$ xhost -si:localuser:root
Unmount the repo
$ borg umount /tmp/borg-mountpoint