Man page - borg-repo-delete(1)

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Manual

BORG-REPO-DELETE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
options
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

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NAME

borg-repo-delete - Delete a repository

SYNOPSIS

borg [common options] repo-delete [options]

DESCRIPTION

This command deletes the complete repository.

When you delete a complete repository, the security info and local cache for it (if any) are also deleted. Alternatively, you can delete just the local cache with the --cache-only option, or keep the security info with the --keep-security-info option.

Always first use --dry-run --list to see what would be deleted.

OPTIONS

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

options

-n , --dry-run

do not change repository

--list

output verbose list of archives

--force

force deletion of corrupted archives, use --force --force in case --force does not work.

--cache-only

delete only the local cache for the given repository

--keep-security-info

keep the local security info when deleting a repository

EXAMPLES

# delete the whole repository and the related local cache:
$ borg repo-delete
You requested to DELETE the repository completely *including* all archives it contains:
repo Mon, 2016-02-15 19:26:54
root-2016-02-15 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:36:29
newname Mon, 2016-02-15 19:50:19
Type 'YES' if you understand this and want to continue: YES

SEE ALSO

borg-common(1)

AUTHOR

The Borg Collective

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