NAME

       borg-export-tar - Export archive contents as a tarball

SYNOPSIS

       borg [common options] export-tar [options] NAME FILE [PATH...]

DESCRIPTION

       This command creates a tarball from an archive.

       When giving '-' as the output FILE, Borg will write a tar stream to standard output.

       By  default  (--tar-filter=auto) Borg will detect whether the FILE should be compressed based on its file
       extension and pipe the tarball through an appropriate filter before writing it to FILE:

       • .tar.gz or .tgz: gzip

       • .tar.bz2 or .tbz: bzip2

       • .tar.xz or .txz: xz

       • .tar.zstd or .tar.zst: zstd

       • .tar.lz4: lz4

       Alternatively, a --tar-filter program may be explicitly specified. It should read  the  uncompressed  tar
       stream from stdin and write a compressed/filtered tar stream to stdout.

       Depending on the -tar-format option, these formats are created:
                     ┌──────────────┬───────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
                     │ --tar-format │ Specification             │ Metadata                     │
                     ├──────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
                     │ BORG         │ BORG specific, like PAX   │ all as supported by borg     │
                     ├──────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
                     │ PAX          │ POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format │ GNU + atime/ctime/mtime ns + │
                     │              │                           │ xattrs                       │
                     ├──────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
                     │ GNU          │ GNU tar format            │ mtime  s, no atime/ctime, no │
                     │              │                           │ ACLs/xattrs/bsdflags         │
                     └──────────────┴───────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘

       A --sparse option (as found in borg extract) is not supported.

       By default the entire archive is extracted but a subset of files  and  directories  can  be  selected  by
       passing  a  list  of  PATHs  as  arguments.   The  file  selection can further be restricted by using the
       --exclude option.

       For more help on include/exclude patterns, see the borg_patterns command output.

       --progress can be slower than no progress display, since it makes one additional pass  over  the  archive
       metadata.

OPTIONS

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

   arguments
       NAME   specify the archive name

       FILE   output tar file. "-" to write to stdout instead.

       PATH   paths to extract; patterns are supported

   options
       --tar-filter
              filter program to pipe data through

       --list output verbose list of items (files, dirs, ...)

       --tar-format FMT
              select tar format: BORG, PAX or GNU

   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

                                                   2025-01-03                                 BORG-EXPORT-TAR(1)