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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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## Logging
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By default, borgmatic logs to a local syslog-compatible daemon if one is
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present. Where those logs show up depends on your particular system. If you're
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using systemd, try running `journalctl -xe`. Otherwise, try viewing
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`/var/log/syslog` or similiar.
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You can customize the log level used for syslog logging with the
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`--syslog-verbosity` flag, and this is independent from the console logging
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`--verbosity` flag described above. For instance, to disable syslog logging
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except for errors:
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```bash
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borgmatic --syslog-verbosity 0
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```
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Or to increase syslog logging to include debug spew:
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```bash
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borgmatic --syslog-verbosity 2
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```
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### systemd journal
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If your local syslog daemon is systemd's journal, be aware that journald by
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default throttles the rate at which a particular program can log. So you may
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need to [change the journald rate
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limit](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journald.conf.html#RateLimitIntervalSec=)
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in `/etc/systemd/journald.conf` if you're finding that borgmatic journald logs
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are missing.
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Note that the [sample borgmatic systemd service
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file](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/set-up-backups/#systemd)
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already has this rate limit disabled.
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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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Note that when you specify the `--json` flag, Borg's other non-JSON output is
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suppressed so as not to interfere with the captured JSON. Also note that JSON
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output only shows up at the console, and not in syslog.
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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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