borgmatic-collective/borgmatic

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2312 stars · 117 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

borgmatic is a configuration-driven Python wrapper around Borg Backup that automates backups of files, databases, and filesystem snapshots on servers and workstations. It adds declarative YAML configuration, retention policies, consistency checks, and integrations with monitoring services like Healthchecks, ntfy, and Zabbix.

Use cases

• set up automated encrypted backups for my server
• backup postgresql and mysql databases on a schedule
• prune old backups with a retention policy
• get notified when backups fail
• backup databases and files with borg
• run consistency checks on my borg repositories
• snapshot zfs or lvm volumes before backup

When to choose

• you want simple, declarative YAML-driven Borg backups
• you need to dump databases or snapshot filesystems as part of backups
• you want integrated backup monitoring and alerting
• you manage servers or workstations on Linux/macOS

When to avoid

• you need a GUI backup tool
• you don't want to use Borg as the underlying backup engine
• you need Windows support
• you need cloud-native object storage backups without Borg repositories

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

backup configuration-management monitoring scheduling developer-tools self-hosted databases files cli python self-hosted borgbackup deduplication client-side-encryption database-dump healthchecks zfs btrfs lvm retention-policy devops automation linux macos

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