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borg delete
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borg [common options] delete [options]
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| **options** |
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| | ``-n``, ``--dry-run`` | do not change repository |
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| | ``--list`` | output verbose list of archives |
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| | ``--consider-checkpoints`` | consider checkpoint archives for deletion (default: not considered). |
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| | ``-s``, ``--stats`` | print statistics for the deleted archive |
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| | ``--force`` | force deletion of corrupted archives, use ``--force --force`` in case ``--force`` does not work. |
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| | ``-c SECONDS``, ``--checkpoint-interval SECONDS`` | write checkpoint every SECONDS seconds (Default: 1800) |
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| :ref:`common_options` |
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| **Archive filters** — Archive filters can be applied to repository targets. |
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| | ``-a PATTERN``, ``--match-archives PATTERN`` | only consider archive names matching the pattern. see "borg help match-archives". |
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| | ``--sort-by KEYS`` | Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, archive, name, id; default is: timestamp |
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| | ``--first N`` | consider first N archives after other filters were applied |
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| | ``--last N`` | consider last N archives after other filters were applied |
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| | ``--oldest TIMESPAN`` | consider archives between the oldest archive's timestamp and (oldest + TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m. |
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| | ``--newest TIMESPAN`` | consider archives between the newest archive's timestamp and (newest - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m. |
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| | ``--older TIMESPAN`` | consider archives older than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m. |
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| | ``--newer TIMESPAN`` | consider archives newer than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m. |
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options
-n, --dry-run do not change repository
--list output verbose list of archives
--consider-checkpoints consider checkpoint archives for deletion (default: not considered).
-s, --stats print statistics for the deleted archive
--force force deletion of corrupted archives, use ``--force --force`` in case ``--force`` does not work.
-c SECONDS, --checkpoint-interval SECONDS write checkpoint every SECONDS seconds (Default: 1800)
:ref:`common_options`
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Archive filters
-a PATTERN, --match-archives PATTERN only consider archive names matching the pattern. see "borg help match-archives".
--sort-by KEYS Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, archive, name, id; default is: timestamp
--first N consider first N archives after other filters were applied
--last N consider last N archives after other filters were applied
--oldest TIMESPAN consider archives between the oldest archive's timestamp and (oldest + TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
--newest TIMESPAN consider archives between the newest archive's timestamp and (newest - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
--older TIMESPAN consider archives older than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
--newer TIMESPAN consider archives newer than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g. 7d or 12m.
Description
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This command deletes archives from the repository.
Important: When deleting archives, repository disk space is **not** freed until
you run ``borg compact``.
When in doubt, use ``--dry-run --list`` to see what would be deleted.
When using ``--stats``, you will get some statistics about how much data was
deleted - the "Deleted data" deduplicated size there is most interesting as
that is how much your repository will shrink.
Please note that the "All archives" stats refer to the state after deletion.
You can delete multiple archives by specifying a matching pattern,
using the ``--match-archives PATTERN`` option (for more info on these patterns,
see :ref:`borg_patterns`).
Always first use ``--dry-run --list`` to see what would be deleted.