norgbackup/docs/content/usage/initialize.md

+++ title = "Initialize Repositories" weight = 40 +++ Your backup repositories need to be initialized before they can be used. Norg has a command to do this for you once you.
To initialize your repositories one by one, you can run the following command:

norg -c myconfig.toml init -e repokey-blake2

This will initialize a Borg repository using the repokey-blake2 encryption algorithm, making it ready for use.

Restic does not use the same encryption algorithm option, so the above command may fail. However, running the below command again, without the -e repokey-blake2 option will initialize a Restic repository correctly, leaving the borg repository untouched.

TODO: We plan to resolve the requirement of running this command twice in the future.