borg-list(1) borg backup tool borg-list(1) (NAME) borg-list - (SYNOPSIS) borg [common options] list [options] [REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE] [PATH...] (DESCRIPTION) . / borg_patterns . (OPTIONS) Borg borg-common(1) . (arguments) REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE PATH (options) --consider-checkpoints (checkpoint) (: ). --short / --format FORMAT ( : "{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}" : "{archive:<36} {time} [{id}]{NL}") --json . JSON. --format JSON . . : JSON "barchive" . --json-lines . JSON (JSON Lines). --format JSON . . : JSON "bpath" . (Archive filters) -P PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX . ( ) -a GLOB, --glob-archives GLOB glob. sh: ( sh:) "borg help patterns" . --sort-by KEYS : timestamp, archive, name, id : timestamp --first N N --last N N / (Include/Exclude options) -e PATTERN, --exclude PATTERN PATTERN --exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE EXCLUDEFILE --pattern PATTERN / PATTERN --patterns-from PATTERNFILE / PATTERNFILE (EXAMPLES) $ borg list /path/to/repo Monday Mon, 2016-02-15 19:15:11 repo Mon, 2016-02-15 19:26:54 root-2016-02-15 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:36:29 newname Mon, 2016-02-15 19:50:19 ... $ borg list /path/to/repo::root-2016-02-15 drwxr-xr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 17:44:27 . drwxrwxr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:04:49 bin -rwxr-xr-x root root 1029624 Thu, 2014-11-13 00:08:51 bin/bash lrwxrwxrwx root root 0 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:26 bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff -rwxr-xr-x root root 2140 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:22 bin/bzdiff ... $ borg list /path/to/repo::root-2016-02-15 --pattern "- bin/ba*" drwxr-xr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 17:44:27 . drwxrwxr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:04:49 bin lrwxrwxrwx root root 0 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:26 bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff -rwxr-xr-x root root 2140 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:22 bin/bzdiff ... $ borg list /path/to/repo::archiveA --format="{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8d} {isomtime} {path}{extra}{NEWLINE}" drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 . drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.text ... $ borg list /path/to/repo/::archiveA --pattern '+ re:\.ext$' --pattern '- re:^.*$' -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext ... $ borg list /path/to/repo/::archiveA --pattern '+ re:.ext$' --pattern '- re:^.*$' -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.text ... (NOTES) FORMAT (The FORMAT specifier syntax) --format : . : $ borg list --format '{archive}{NL}' /path/to/repo ArchiveFoo ArchiveBar ... # {VAR:NUMBER} - NUMBER . # . # : isomtime isoctime isoatime . $ borg list --format '{archive:36} {time} [{id}]{NL}' /path/to/repo ArchiveFoo Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:28 [0b8e9a312bef3f2f6e2d0fc110c196827786c15eba0188738e81697a7fa3b274] $ borg list --format '{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}' /path/to/repo::ArchiveFoo -rw-rw-r-- user user 1024 Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:17 file-foo ... # {VAR: NUMBER . # {VAR:>NUMBER} - NUMBER . $ borg list --format '{mode} {user:>6} {group:>6} {size:<8} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}' /path/to/repo::ArchiveFoo -rw-rw-r-- user user 1024 Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:17 file-foo ... : o NEWLINE: o NL: NEWLINE o NUL: NUL print0 / xargs -0 barchive bpath o SPACE: o TAB: () o CR: (Carriage Return) o LF: (Line Feed) : o archive: ( barchive ) o name: "archive" o barchive: NUL o comment: ( bcomment ) o bcomment: NUL o id: o tam: TAM o start: o time: "start" o end: o command_line: o hostname: o username: : o type: o mode: o uid: o gid: o user: o group: o path: ( bpath ) o bpath: POSIX NUL o source: ( linktarget) o linktarget: o flags: o size: o csize: o dsize: (deduplicated) o dcsize: o num_chunks: () o unique_chunks: o mtime: o ctime: o atime: o isomtime: mtime ISO o isoctime: ctime ISO o isoatime: atime ISO o blake2b: blake2b o blake2s: blake2s o md5: md5 o sha1: sha1 o sha224: sha224 o sha256: sha256 o sha384: sha384 o sha3_224: sha3_224 o sha3_256: sha3_256 o sha3_384: sha3_384 o sha3_512: sha3_512 o sha512: sha512 o xxh64: XXH64 (: !) o archiveid: o archivename: o extra: " -> " {source} " link to " o health: "healthy" ( ) "broken" ( ) (SEE ALSO) borg-common(1), borg-info(1), borg-diff(1), borg-prune(1), borg-patterns(1) (AUTHOR) The Borg Collective 2026-07-18 borg-list(1)