Borgmatic

Daily backup system using Borg backup, running on indri.

Quick Reference

Property	Value
Install	mise (pipx)
Main config	~/.config/borgmatic/config.yaml
Photos config	~/.config/borgmatic/photos.yaml
Main schedule	Daily at 2:00 AM
Photos schedule	Daily at 4:00 AM
Main targets	sifaka local + BorgBase offsite
Photos target	BorgBase offsite only

What Gets Backed Up

Directories:

• ~/code/personal/zk - Zettelkasten
• /opt/homebrew/var/forgejo - Git forge data
• ~/.config/borgmatic - Borgmatic config
• ~/Documents - Personal documents
• ~/.local/share/borgmatic/k8s-dumps/ - SQLite dumps from k8s pods

PostgreSQL databases:

• miniflux on postgresql
• teslamate on postgresql

K8s SQLite databases (pre-backup dump via kubectl exec):

• mealie - Recipe manager (/app/data/mealie.db)

Immich photo library (separate config, BorgBase offsite only):

• /Volumes/photos (sifaka SMB mount, ~128 GB)

Not backed up (by design):

• ZIM archives (re-downloadable)
• Prometheus metrics (ephemeral)
• Loki logs (ephemeral)

Retention Policy

Period	Count
Daily	7
Monthly	12
Yearly	1000

Monitoring

Metrics exposed via textfile collector to prometheus:

• borgmatic_up - Repository accessibility
• borgmatic_last_archive_timestamp - Last backup time
• borgmatic_repo_deduplicated_size_bytes - Disk usage

Dashboard: “Borgmatic Backups” in grafana

Related

• Backups - Full backup policy
• Sifaka - Backup target
• postgresql - Database backups
• restore-1password-backup - Recover 1Password from backup