borg delete
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   borg [common options] delete [options] [REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE] [ARCHIVE...]


Description
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This command deletes an archive from the repository or the complete
repository.

Important: When deleting archives, repository disk space is **not**
freed until you run "borg compact".

When you delete a complete repository, the security info and local
cache for it (if any) are also deleted. Alternatively, you can delete
just the local cache with the "--cache-only" option, or keep the
security info with the "--keep-security-info" option.

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 shell pattern to
match multiple archives using the "--glob-archives GLOB" option (for
more info on these patterns, see borg help patterns).

To avoid accidentally deleting archives, especially when using glob
patterns, it might be helpful to use the "--dry-run" to test out the
command without actually making any changes to the repository.


Examples
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   # delete a single backup archive:
   $ borg delete /path/to/repo::Monday
   # actually free disk space:
   $ borg compact /path/to/repo

   # delete all archives whose names begin with the machine's hostname followed by "-"
   $ borg delete --glob-archives '{hostname}-*' /path/to/repo

   # delete all archives whose names contain "-2012-"
   $ borg delete --glob-archives '*-2012-*' /path/to/repo

   # see what would be deleted if delete were run without --dry-run
   $ borg delete --list --dry-run -a '*-May-*' /path/to/repo

   # delete the whole repository and the related local cache:
   $ borg delete /path/to/repo
   You requested to completely DELETE the repository *including* all archives it contains:
   repo                                 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:26:54
   root-2016-02-15                      Mon, 2016-02-15 19:36:29
   newname                              Mon, 2016-02-15 19:50:19
   Type 'YES' if you understand this and want to continue: YES
