Relative Path

[TommySchwartz]

Hi everybody!

Absolute beginner with Vorta and Borg, so I though it would be a good idea to try Vorta to get going with backups.
But I'm stuck in what I believe is due to Vorta, and that is relative paths. I have a system with Fedora (for now, could change), Windows 10 and another laptop (macbook) with macOS. So for me saving the full path in example fedora is just annoying (/run/media/$user/$label) and it maybe not even is fedora that is going to do the backup/restore.

I have tried to use the extra argument for borg textbox in Vorta, but to no avail.
Tried

• Slashdot hack.
• REPO::ARCHIVE PATH=ARCHIVEPATH (this is something chatGPT stubbornly insisted would work).

Not Tried

• Bind mount, would like to just use Vorta if possible.

Did run the borg executable inside the flatpak with terminal and with the slashdot hack and it worked as intended.
But how do I do this slashdot hack inside Vorta, and with multiple folder/paths?

Would love some examples.
Thanks in advance!

[goebbe]

@TommySchwartz Reading this it remains unclear to me, what your issue is.
Perhaps you could provide some examples about what you want to achieve?
Is this about borg, or is this about Vorta?

[TommySchwartz]

Sorry if it was confusing.

Would say this is a Vorta problem. I can get borgbackup CLI to do what I want.

I just want to strip parent folder structure. I'm only interested in my folder, not for example the /run/media/username/ structure before it.

[CaahArch]

If you only want to backup a relative path, e.g. because the same data has different parents on different (new) devices, it is possible to use a "slashdot" in the path to the source [1]

The slashdot hack in paths (recursion roots) is triggered by using /./: /this/gets/stripped/./this/gets/archived means to process that filesystem object, but strip the prefix on the left side of ./ from the archived items (in this case, this/gets/archived will be the path in the archived item).

To use this in Vorta, I had to export my profile, change the path to the source manually and import the changed profile.

    "SourceFileModel": [
        {
            "dir": "/home/caah/./data",

[1]: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/create.html