My solution for automating backups using Borg

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I have been using this collection of scripts to manage borg backups across my handful of servers I have at my homelab with some success. I started these scripts before knowing about borgmatic, but by then they were already mature and did what I wanted in a simple and concise manner. It was also a very important opportunity for me to put in practice a bit of good practices when using bash to the best of my knowledge. Hope that sharing this will help others use borg, understand bash scripts and/or motivate to create their own open repos automating their personal processes to share with the rest of the community. Disclaimer: I've been using Claude and more recently DeepSeek R1 14b distill with aider to derive the README instructions. If you guys see any issue in the README, please do report! Thanks!

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