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BORG-EXTRACT

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
arguments
optional arguments
Include/Exclude options
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

NAME

borg-extract - Extract archive contents

SYNOPSIS

borg [common options] extract [options] ARCHIVE [PATH...]

DESCRIPTION

This command extracts the contents of an archive. By default the entire archive is extracted but a subset of files and directories can be selected by passing a list of PATHs as arguments. The file selection can further be restricted by using the --exclude option.

For more help on include/exclude patterns, see the borg_patterns command output.

By using --dry-run , you can do all extraction steps except actually writing the output data: reading metadata and data chunks from the repo, checking the hash/hmac, decrypting, decompressing.

--progress can be slower than no progress display, since it makes one additional pass over the archive metadata.

NOTE:

Currently, extract always writes into the current working directory ("."), so make sure you cd to the right place before calling borg extract .

When parent directories are not extracted (because of using file/directory selection or any other reason), borg can not restore parent directories' metadata, e.g. owner, group, permission, etc.

OPTIONS

See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands.

arguments

ARCHIVE

archive to extract

PATH

paths to extract; patterns are supported

optional arguments

--list

output verbose list of items (files, dirs, ...)

-n , --dry-run

do not actually change any files

--numeric-owner

deprecated, use --numeric-ids instead

--numeric-ids

only obey numeric user and group identifiers

--nobsdflags

deprecated, use --noflags instead

--noflags

do not extract/set flags (e.g. NODUMP, IMMUTABLE)

--noacls

do not extract/set ACLs

--noxattrs

do not extract/set xattrs

--stdout

write all extracted data to stdout

--sparse

create holes in output sparse file from all-zero chunks

Include/Exclude options

-e PATTERN , --exclude PATTERN

exclude paths matching PATTERN

--exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE

read exclude patterns from EXCLUDEFILE, one per line

--pattern PATTERN

include/exclude paths matching PATTERN

--patterns-from PATTERNFILE

read include/exclude patterns from PATTERNFILE, one per line

--strip-components NUMBER

Remove the specified number of leading path elements. Paths with fewer elements will be silently skipped.

EXAMPLES 

# Extract entire archive
$ borg extract /path/to/repo::my-files

# Extract entire archive and list files while processing
$ borg extract --list /path/to/repo::my-files

# Verify whether an archive could be successfully extracted, but do not write files to disk
$ borg extract --dry-run /path/to/repo::my-files

# Extract the "src" directory
$ borg extract /path/to/repo::my-files home/USERNAME/src

# Extract the "src" directory but exclude object files
$ borg extract /path/to/repo::my-files home/USERNAME/src --exclude '*.o'


# Restore a raw device (must not be active/in use/mounted at that time)
$ borg extract --stdout /path/to/repo::my-sdx | dd of=/dev/sdx bs=10M

SEE ALSO

borg-common(1) , borg-mount(1)

AUTHOR

The Borg Collective