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):