What problem does it solve?
This Skill documents how to manage Borg backup repositories for Metabase, reducing the risk of data loss by enabling consistent encrypted backups, verification, pruning, and restores of application data and configuration.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Create Backups: Guidance to create encrypted Borg archives of the Metabase application directory to a remote SSH repository.
- Listing and Verification: Procedures to list archives, inspect archive info, run integrity checks, and perform test extracts to validate backups.
- Restore and Prune: Steps to extract full archives or specific files for restores and to prune old archives according to retention policies.
- Use Cases: Scheduled automated backups, ad-hoc restores after data issues, and routine storage management through pruning.
Quick Start
Create a Borg archive of your Metabase data to the configured remote SSH repository and then run a repository check to verify the backup.