Automating Server Backups With Borgmatic

Linux Server Admin with Fexingo: Sysadmin, Bash, and Server Engineering · May 23, 2026 · 11m · transcript

In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the practical world of server backups using Borgmatic, a wrapper for the Borg backup tool. They walk through a real disaster scenario where a rogue script deleted a week's worth of customer transactions on a staging server, and how a Borgmatic backup saved the day. The discussion covers the key advantages of deduplication, encryption, and incremental backups, along with a concrete setup example using a crontab. Lucas explains how Borg's chunking algorithm reduces storage by 80 percent compared to traditional tar files, and why append-only mode…