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title: How to inspect your backups
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---
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## Backup progress
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By default, borgmatic runs proceed silently except in the case of errors. But
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if you'd like to to get additional information about the progress of the
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backup as it proceeds, use the verbosity option:
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```bash
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borgmatic --verbosity 1
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```
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This lists the files that borgmatic is archiving, which are those that are new
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or changed since the last backup.
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Or, for even more progress and debug spew:
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```bash
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borgmatic --verbosity 2
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```
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## Existing backups
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Borgmatic provides convenient flags for Borg's
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[list](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/list.html) and
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[info](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/info.html)
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functionality:
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```bash
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borgmatic --list
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borgmatic --info
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```
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## Scripting borgmatic
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To consume the output of borgmatic in other software, you can include an
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optional `--json` flag with `--create`, `--list`, or `--info` to get the
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output formatted as JSON.
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## Related documentation
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* [Set up backups with borgmatic](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/set-up-backups.md)
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* [Develop on borgmatic](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/develop-on-borgmatic.md)
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