More documentation examples of a la carte actions.
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backup archives, even when dealing with very large repositories. But you may
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backup archives, even when dealing with very large repositories. But you may
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find that while borgmatic's default mode of "prune, create, and check" works
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find that while borgmatic's default mode of "prune, create, and check" works
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well on small repositories, it's not so great on larger ones. That's because
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well on small repositories, it's not so great on larger ones. That's because
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running the default consistency checks takes a long time on large
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running the default pruning and consistency checks take a long time on large
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repositories.
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repositories.
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### A la carte actions
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### A la carte actions
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You can run with only one of these actions provided, or you can mix and match
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You can run with only one of these actions provided, or you can mix and match
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any number of them in a single borgmatic run. This supports approaches like
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any number of them in a single borgmatic run. This supports approaches like
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making backups with `create` on a frequent schedule, while only running
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skipping certain actions while running others. For instance, this skips
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expensive consistency checks with `check` on a much less frequent basis from
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`prune` and only runs `create` and `check`:
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a separate cron job.
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```bash
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borgmatic create check
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Or, you can make backups with `create` on a frequent schedule (e.g. with
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`borgmatic create` called from one cron job), while only running expensive
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consistency checks with `check` on a much less frequent basis (e.g. with
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`borgmatic check` called from a separate cron job).
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### Consistency check configuration
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### Consistency check configuration
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