Merge pull request 'docs(borgbackup): add detailed usage and management guide for borgbackup clanServices' (#4484) from badele/fork-clan-core:docs/clanservices-borgbackup into main

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BorgBackup (short: Borg) gives you:
## Usage
- Space efficient storage of backups.
- Secure, authenticated encryption.
- Compression: lz4, zstd, zlib, lzma or none.
- Mountable backups with FUSE.
```nix
inventory.instances = {
borgbackup = {
module = {
name = "borgbackup";
input = "clan";
};
roles.client.machines."jon".settings = {
destinations."storagebox" = {
repo = "username@$hostname:/./borgbackup";
rsh = ''ssh -oPort=23 -i /run/secrets/vars/borgbackup/borgbackup.ssh'';
};
};
roles.server.machines = { };
};
};
```
The input should be named according to your flake input. Jon is configured as a
client machine with a destination pointing to a Hetzner Storage Box.
## Overview
This guide explains how to set up and manage
[BorgBackup](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/) for secure, efficient backups
in a clan network. BorgBackup provides:
- Space efficient storage of backups with deduplication
- Secure, authenticated encryption
- Compression: lz4, zstd, zlib, lzma or none
- Mountable backups with FUSE
- Easy installation on multiple platforms: Linux, macOS, BSD, …
- Free software (BSD license).
- Backed by a large and active open-source community.
## Roles
### 1. Client
Clients are machines that create and send backups to various destinations. Each
client can have multiple backup destinations configured.
### 2. Server
Servers act as backup repositories, receiving and storing backups from client
machines. They can be dedicated backup servers within your clan network.
## Backup destinations
This service allows you to perform backups to multiple `destinations`.
Destinations can be:
- **Local**: Local disk storage
- **Server**: Your own borgbackup server (using the `server` role)
- **Third-party services**: Such as Hetzner's Storage Box
## State management
Backups are based on [states](../../reference/clan.core/state.md). A state
defines which files should be backed up and how these files are obtained through
pre/post backup and restore scripts.
Here's an example for a user application `linkding`:
In this example:
- `/data/podman/linkding` is the application's data directory
- `/var/backup/linkding` is the staging directory where data is copied for
backup
```nix
clan.core.state.linkding = {
folders = [ "/var/backup/linkding" ];
preBackupScript = ''
export PATH=${
lib.makeBinPath [
config.systemd.package
pkgs.coreutils
pkgs.rsync
]
}
service_status=$(systemctl is-active podman-linkding)
if [ "$service_status" = "active" ]; then
systemctl stop podman-linkding
rsync -avH --delete --numeric-ids "/data/podman/linkding/" /var/backup/linkding/
systemctl start podman-linkding
fi
'';
postRestoreScript = ''
export PATH=${
lib.makeBinPath [
config.systemd.package
pkgs.coreutils
pkgs.rsync
]
}
service_status="$(systemctl is-active podman-linkding)"
if [ "$service_status" = "active" ]; then
systemctl stop podman-linkding
# Backup locally current linkding data
cp -rp "/data/podman/linkding" "/data/podman/linkding.bak"
# Restore from borgbackup
rsync -avH --delete --numeric-ids /var/backup/linkding/ "/data/podman/linkding/"
systemctl start podman-linkding
fi
'';
};
```
## Managing backups
### Listing states
To see which files (`states`) will be backed up on a specific machine, use:
```bash
clan state list jon
```
This will show all configured states for the machine `jon`, for example:
```text
· 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:
```bash
clan backups create jon
```
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:
```bash
clan backups list
```
This will display all backups with their timestamps:
```text
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
#### Full restoration
To restore all services from a backup:
```bash
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`):
```bash
clan backups restore --service linkding jon borgbackup storagebox::u444061@u444061.your-storagebox.de:/./borgbackup::jon-storagebox-2025-07-24T06:02:35
```