Digging Deeper
In this section we go over how to manage your collection of backups with the clan command.
Listing states
To see which files (states
) will be backed up on a specific machine, use:
This will show all configured states for the machine jon
, for example:
· service: linkding
folders:
- /var/backup/linkding
preBackupCommand: pre-backup-linkding
postRestoreCommand: post-restore-linkding
· service: zerotier
folders:
- /var/lib/zerotier-one
Creating backups
To create a backup of a machine (e.g., jon
), run:
This will backup all configured states (zerotier
and linkding
in this
example) from the machine jon
.
Listing available backups
To see all available backups, use:
This will display all backups with their timestamps:
storagebox::username@username.your-storagebox.de:/./borgbackup::jon-jon-2025-07-22T19:40:10
storagebox::username@username.your-storagebox.de:/./borgbackup::jon-jon-2025-07-23T01:00:00
storagebox::username@username.your-storagebox.de:/./borgbackup::jon-storagebox-2025-07-24T01:00:00
storagebox::username@username.your-storagebox.de:/./borgbackup::jon-storagebox-2025-07-24T06:02:35
Restoring backups
For restoring a backup you have two options.
Full restoration
To restore all services from a backup:
clan backups restore jon borgbackup storagebox::u444061@u444061.your-storagebox.de:/./borgbackup::jon-storagebox-2025-07-24T06:02:35
Partial restoration
To restore only a specific service (e.g., linkding
):