From a4eef383c3c8ac899506216ec26ef4646868a9de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Helfman Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:08:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Spell out repository consistency check options in more detail. --- docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md b/docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md index 751c46c..4076c38 100644 --- a/docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md +++ b/docs/how-to/deal-with-very-large-backups.md @@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ consistency: - repository ``` +Here are the available checks from fastest to slowest: + + * `repository`: Checks the consistency of the repository itself. + * `archives`: Checks all of the archives in the repository. + * `extract`: Performs an extraction dry-run of the most recent archive. + * `data`: Verifies the data integrity of all archives contents, decrypting and decompressing all data (implies `archives` as well). + +See [Borg's check documentation](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html) for more information. + If that's still too slow, you can disable consistency checks entirely, either for a single repository or for all repositories.