NAME

       borgfs - Mount archive or an entire repository as a FUSE filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       borgfs [options] REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE MOUNTPOINT [PATH...]

DESCRIPTION

       This  command mounts a repository or an archive as a FUSE filesystem.  This can be useful for browsing or
       restoring individual files.

       When restoring, take into account that the current FUSE implementation does not support special fs  flags
       and ACLs.

       When  mounting  a  repository,  the  top  directories  will  be named like the archives and the directory
       structure below these will be loaded on-demand from the repository when entering  these  directories,  so
       expect some delay.

       Unless  the  --foreground  option is given the command will run in the background until the filesystem is
       umounted.

       Performance tips:

       • when doing a "whole repository" mount: do not enter archive dirs if not needed, this  avoids  on-demand
         loading.

       • only mount a specific archive, not the whole repository.

       • only mount specific paths in a specific archive, not the complete archive.

       The  command  borgfs  provides  a  wrapper  for  borg  mount.  This  can  also  be used in fstab entries:
       /path/to/repo /mnt/point fuse.borgfs defaults,noauto 0 0

       To allow a regular user to use fstab entries, add the user option: /path/to/repo  /mnt/point  fuse.borgfs
       defaults,noauto,user 0 0

       For FUSE configuration and mount options, see the mount.fuse(8) manual page.

       Borg's  default  behavior  is  to  use the archived user and group names of each file and map them to the
       system's respective user and group ids.  Alternatively, using numeric-ids will instead use  the  archived
       user and group ids without any mapping.

       The uid and gid mount options (implemented by Borg) can be used to override the user and group ids of all
       files (i.e., borg mount -o uid=1000,gid=1000).

       The  man  page references user_id and group_id mount options (implemented by fuse) which specify the user
       and group id of the mount owner (aka, the user who does the mounting). It is set automatically by libfuse
       (or the filesystem if libfuse is not used). However, you should not specify these  manually.  Unlike  the
       uid  and  gid  mount options which affect all files, user_id and group_id affect the user and group id of
       the mounted (base) directory.

       Additional mount options supported by borg:

       • versions: when used with a repository mount, this gives a merged, versioned view of the  files  in  the
         archives. EXPERIMENTAL, layout may change in future.

       • allow_damaged_files: by default damaged files (where missing chunks were replaced with runs of zeros by
         borg check --repair) are not readable and return EIO (I/O error). Set this option to read such files.

       • ignore_permissions: for security reasons the default_permissions mount option is internally enforced by
         borg. ignore_permissions can be given to not enforce default_permissions.

       The  BORG_MOUNT_DATA_CACHE_ENTRIES  environment  variable  is  meant  for  advanced  users  to  tweak the
       performance. It sets the number of cached data chunks; additional memory usage can be up to ~8 MiB  times
       this number. The default is the number of CPU cores.

       When the daemonized process receives a signal or crashes, it does not unmount.  Unmounting in these cases
       could cause an active rsync or similar process to unintentionally delete data.

       When  running  in the foreground, ^C/SIGINT cleanly unmounts the filesystem, but other signals or crashes
       do not.

OPTIONS

       See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands.

   arguments
       REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE
              repository or archive to mount

       MOUNTPOINT
              where to mount filesystem

       PATH   paths to extract; patterns are supported

   options
       -V, --version
              show version number and exit

       --consider-checkpoints
              Show checkpoint archives in the repository contents list (default: hidden).

       -f, --foreground
              stay in foreground, do not daemonize

       -o     Extra mount options

       --numeric-owner
              deprecated, use --numeric-ids instead

       --numeric-ids
              use numeric user and group identifiers from archive(s)

   Archive filters
       -P PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
              only consider archive names starting with this prefix. (deprecated)

       -a GLOB, --glob-archives GLOB
              only consider archive names matching the glob. sh: rules apply (without  actually  using  the  sh:
              prefix), see "borg help patterns".

       --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

   Include/Exclude options
       -e PATTERN, --exclude PATTERN
              exclude paths matching PATTERN

       --exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE
              read exclude patterns from EXCLUDEFILE, one per line

       --pattern PATTERN
              include/exclude paths matching PATTERN

       --patterns-from PATTERNFILE
              read include/exclude patterns from PATTERNFILE, one per line

       --strip-components NUMBER
              Remove the specified number of leading path elements. Paths with fewer elements will  be  silently
              skipped.

SEE ALSO

       borg-common(1)

AUTHOR

       The Borg Collective

                                                   2025-04-18                                          BORGFS(1)