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authorThomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>2021-02-06 01:32:54 +0100
committerThomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>2021-02-06 01:32:54 +0100
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.\" Man page generated from reStructuredText.
.
-.TH BORG-DELETE 1 "2020-12-06" "" "borg backup tool"
+.TH BORG-DELETE 1 "2021-02-06" "" "borg backup tool"
.SH NAME
borg-delete \- Delete an existing repository or archives
.
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ When you delete a complete repository, the security info and local cache for it
with the \fB\-\-cache\-only\fP option, or keep the security info with the
\fB\-\-keep\-security\-info\fP option.
.sp
+When in doubt, use \fB\-\-dry\-run \-\-list\fP to see what would be deleted.
+.sp
When using \fB\-\-stats\fP, you will get some statistics about how much data was
deleted \- the "Deleted data" deduplicated size there is most interesting as
that is how much your repository will shrink.
@@ -77,6 +79,9 @@ archives to delete
.B \-n\fP,\fB \-\-dry\-run
do not change repository
.TP
+.B \-\-list
+output verbose list of archives
+.TP
.B \-s\fP,\fB \-\-stats
print statistics for the deleted archive
.TP
@@ -128,7 +133,7 @@ $ borg delete \-\-prefix \(aq{hostname}\-\(aq /path/to/repo
$ borg delete \-\-glob\-archives \(aq*\-2012\-*\(aq /path/to/repo
# see what would be deleted if delete was run without \-\-dry\-run
-$ borg delete \-v \-\-dry\-run \-a \(aq*\-May\-*\(aq /path/to/repo
+$ borg delete \-\-list \-\-dry\-run \-a \(aq*\-May\-*\(aq /path/to/repo
# delete the whole repository and the related local cache:
$ borg delete /path/to/repo