norgbackup/docs/content/usage/initialize.md
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title = "Initialize Repositories"
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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:
```sh
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.