15 engineers on Hacker News describe using BorgBackup first-hand: 10 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I've been using Borg for a while... Borg and Restic are both fine backup programs.”
endorse · personal · theamk · 2026-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've been using it for the past 3 years to archive hundreds of file-level backups of servers”
endorse · production · 3 yr · pQd · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Absolutely love Borg, have been using it for several years.”
endorse · personal · siraben · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Have been using Borg for many years now, it saved me several times already when I accidentally deleted stuff”
endorse · personal · ThePhysicist · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Borg for years. It's great! The deduplication feature allows me to take a "full" backup of my work station hourly.”
endorse · personal · trulyrandom · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Borg for the last three years to replicate on-site ZFS snapshots as Borg archives on rsync.net.”
endorse · personal · 3 yr · gorgoiler · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched our encrypted compress offsite data backups to use Borg Backup does data deduplication so the required disk space is much lower.”
endorse · production · mtmail · 2020-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using borg to backup small things... can vouch that it's pretty simple to setup.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · dx87 · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Borg for a couple of years now... It's seen me through three laptops and it has been reliable and easy-to-use.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · cmiles74 · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for years now, backing up a few terabytes of data from a few dozen VMs.”
endorse · production · bloopernova · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried borgbackup a couple of years ago and immediately hit a handful of issues that put me off”
regret · personal · cookiecaper · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote the first BORG version of DFP backend systems at Google, where we served billions of users billions of ads a day”
neutral · production · malux85 · 2023-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a team I was on had several dev environments in Borg (the cluster management system)”
neutral · production · jeffbee · 2022-05-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Borg for backups to another provider.”
neutral · production · mgbmtl · 2021-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“each borg machine, magically collected these metrics/logs/etc.”
neutral · production · 2.5 yr · malkia · 2019-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?